Code

A body of laws; a authority, — either a mere system of laws founded on and criminal have been western states. Code civil: rection of Napoleon, and France, — called under the Justinian: a collection of compiled by Tribonian and Justinian, A. D. 529; and so of Theodosius, published collections, which make up odosius or Theodosian code: odosius the younger, A. D. sixteen books, of all the more properly called the