Constitutio

In Civil Law. An establishment or settlement. Used of controversies settled by the parties without a trial. Calv. Lex. A sum paid according to agreement. Du Cange. An ordinance or decree having its force from the will of the emperor. Dig. 1. 4. 1, Cooper's notes. In Old English Law. An ordinance or statute; a provision of a statute.

In the civil law. An imperial ordinance or constitution, distinguished from Lex, 8enatus-Consultum, and other kinds of law and having its effect from the sele will of the emperor. An establishment or settlement. Used of controversies settled by the parties without a trial. Calvin. A sum paid according to agreement Du Cange.

In old English law. An ordinance or statute. A provision of a statute.

I In old English law. An act, ordinance or statute; an establishment; a provision of a statute; establishment; creation, In the civil law. An imperial ordinance eflfect from the sole will of the empei'or.

In thecivil law. An imperial ordinance or constitution, distinguished from Lex, Senatus-Consultum, and lishment or settlement. Used of ettled by the parties withouta ¥ i] paid according to agreement. Du d English law. An ordinance or A provision of a statute.

l. An act, Clarendon. Constructio legis non law works [must so be

Lat. [from constituere, to establish.] In the civil law. An imperial ordinance or constitution, distinguished from Lex, Senatus-consultum, and other kinds of law, and having its effect from the sole will of the emperor.' Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem. Quodcunque ergo imperator per epistolam constituit, vel cognoscens decrevit, vel edicto pr<Bcepit, legem esse constat. H<bc sunt quce constitutiones appellantur. That which has pleased the sovereign has the force of law. Whatever, therefore, the emperor has ordained by rescript, or decreed upon the hearing of any matter, or commanded by edict, is evidently law. These are what are called constitutions. Just. 1. 2. 6. Cooper's Notes, in he. ffeinecc, Mem, Jur. Civ. Ub. 1, tit. 2, 8 6L