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Umbilicus

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Kinney (1893)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

(Lat.) Literally, the navel; the center of any thing. The name given to the fourth and middle part of the Digests, consisting of eight books, from the twentieth to the twenty-seventh, both inclusive.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. The navel; the center of anything. The name given to the fourth and middle part of the Digests.