Century Digest®

Century Digest®
A volume of the American Digest System that arranges by subject summaries of court opinions reported chronologically in the various units of the National Reporter System during the period from 1658 to 1896.

Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.

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  • digest — A collection or compilation, embodying the chief matter of numerous books, articles, court decisions, etc. in one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement, for facility in reference. An index to reported… …   Black's law dictionary

  • digest — A collection or compilation, embodying the chief matter of numerous books, articles, court decisions, etc. in one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement, for facility in reference. An index to reported… …   Black's law dictionary

  • century Digestc — A volume of the American Digest System that arranges by subject summaries of court opinions reported chronologically in the various units of the National Reporter System during the period from 1658 to 1896. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of… …   Law dictionary

  • Digest (Roman law) — Digestorum, seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta. Lugduni apud Gulielmu[m] Rouillium, 1581. Biblioteca Comunale Renato Fucini di Empoli The Digest, also known as the Pandects (Lat. Digesta seu Pandectae, adapted from Gr. πανδέκτης pandektes, all… …   Wikipedia

  • digest — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, systematic arrangement of laws, from Latin digesta, from neuter plural of digestus, past participle of digerere to arrange, distribute, digest, from dis + gerere to carry Date: 14th century 1. a summation or… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • digest — digestedly, adv. digestedness, n. v. /di jest , duy /; n. /duy jest/, v.t. 1. to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system. 2. to promote the digestion of (food). 3. to obtain information, ideas …   Universalium

  • digest — verb (t) /dəˈdʒɛst / (say duh jest), /daɪ / (say duy ) 1. to prepare (food) in the alimentary canal for assimilation into the system. 2. to promote the digestion of (food). 3. to assimilate mentally; obtain mental nourishment or improvement from …  

  • Digest —    A compendium of previous legal opinions, also called the Pandects, published in 533 as part of the Corpus Juris Civilis (q.v.), and arguably the most important part of Justinian I s (q.v.) legislative work. Much credit goes to Tribonian (q.v.) …   Historical dictionary of Byzantium

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  • Reader's Digest Condensed Books — were a series of anthology books, available by subscription and originally published quarterly (the frequency of publication went through several changes over the years), by Reader s Digest. Each volume consisted of three to five current… …   Wikipedia

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