Latin

The language not only of the civil and the canon law, but of the early European codes, of much of the old common law of England and Scotland, and of a large portion of the public, civil and maritime law of later times. The Latin of the law subsequent to the Code and the Institutes of the Roman law is, however, of the words formed from the English by addition of a Latin termination, and being virtually a variety of what is called low Latin, the Latin of the middle ages.