Nay, you tell me that, according to your code of honour, if one man insults another, he who gives the provocation, and he who receives it, rather than be disgraced in the eyes of their countrymen, will go out, and quietly shoot at each other with firearms, till one of them is killed or wounded; and this too, in many cases, when the injury has been merely nominal.

"It is evident that there must be some fundamental error on one side or the other," "for the laws of nature are uniform, and there cannot be one code for astronomers, and one for geologists."

De Gasparin declared himself its champion, and, in an eloquent speech in the Chamber of Deputies, which moved the audience to tears, he boldly accused the courts of perverting the civil code in favor of religious intolerance, and claimed unlimited freedom for evangelical preaching and colportage.

It may possibly be due to this fact that in England alone, of all countries in the world, the police, the civil servants, the soldiers, are tried in the same courts and by the same code as any private citizen; and that in England and lands settled by English peoples alone the Common law still remains the ultimate and only appeal for every subject of the realm.

That night I made my headquarters in a wrecked church, from the tower of which I sent back signals in the morse code by means of a lamp.

The West Indian Legislatures must be called upon to send their respective codes to this Parliament for revision.

Why is not the sanguinary English criminal code with death in every linewhy is it not reformed, I say? '

But there is no greater theologian at the Court of Paul V, nor any ecclesiastic among them all more familiar with the writings of their authorities; and he hath a memory so astounding that he beareth the meaning of all their codes on the end of his tongue wherewith to confute the fallacious arguments of Rome.

Every dubious point that arises in the course of litigation is referred, by appeal or directly by the judge who decides it, to the Chief Court, and all points of interpretation thus referred, are finally settled by an addition to the code at its periodical revision.

And as to anything like applause on the part of the spectators, what punishment known to any criminal code among civilized nations would be too severe for such an offence?

This and the Siete Partidas, on which they were largely based, comprised the code under which the Spanish-American colonies were governed."

DEERING'S CODES OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

You've shown me a bigger and stronger code than mine.

The measure of Goa is called a tode, which encreaseth vpon the measure of Babylon and Balsara after the rate of 17 and one eight part by the 100, so that bringing 100 pikes of any measurable ware from thence to Goa, it is found 117 pikes 7 eight parts, and bringing 100 codes from Ormuz to Goa, there is found but 93 codes and one fourth part.

To him, more than to any other man, is due the nicely balanced adjustments which eventually harmonized the French and English codes into a body of laws adapted to the extraordinary circumstances of the province of Quebec.

376, n. 4; writings, and Reynolds's pictures, ii. 317, n. 2; penal code against the Papists, ii. 121, n. 1; Philosopical Survey, ii. 339; published as an Englishman's book, iv. 320, n. 4; Rutty, Dr., iii. 170, n. 4; Taxation no Tyranny, sale of, ii. 335, n. 4; mentioned, ii. 349, 350; iii. 111.

" "Last night," Westy said, "he read that smudge signal, because he learned the Morse Code out of the Handbook, and he knew that somebody might be coming up the river with the false report.