Corpus Juris

• Corpus Juris Civilis

[Latin, The body of the civil law.] The name given in the early seventeenth century to the collection of ...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Com–Dor

• Corpus Juris

[Latin, A body of law.] A phrase used to designate a volume encompassing several collections of law, such as the Corpus Ju...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Com–Dor

• Contemplating a Civil Law Paradigm for a Future International Commercial Code

Introduction. II. The Two Dominant Legal Systems of the World: Common Law and Civil Law. A. The Pervasive Reach of the Two Systems. B. Basic Origins, Precepts, and Characteristics of the Common Law System. 1. Historical Roots. 2. Basic Mechanics of the Common Law System. 3. Legislation in Common Law Systems. 4. Equitable Powers of the Courts. 5. The Role of the Court and Judges in the Common Law System. 6. Summary of Common Law System. C. Basic Origins, Precepts and Characteristics of the Civil Law System. 1. Roman Origins and the Corpus Juris Civilis. 2. Revived European Study of the Corpus Juris Civilis. 3. The Rise of the Nation-State, the Revolution, and the Advent of National Codes. 4. Codification Efforts in England and the United States. 5. The Code in the Modern Civil Law Sys...

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 65-2, January 2005

• Stern v. Marshall, 564 U.S. (2011)

... that the Bankruptcy Court lacked jurisdiction over Vickie's counter­claim. In particular, Pi... jurisdictionreaching any area of the corpus juris. See ibid.; id., at 91(Rehnquist, J., concur...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Islamic Imperial Law: Harun Al-Rashid's Codification Project.

... commission whose membership included the jurists al-Shaybani (749-803 or 805) and Abu Yusuf (d. 798...-saghir, al-Ziyadat, and al-Siyar) and the Corpus Juris Civilis: there is a clear correspondence in ...

• The Journal of the American Oriental Society
• Vol. 129 Nbr. 3, July 2009

• Holmes v. South Carolina, 547 U. S. (2006)

... to the “applicable rule” from Corpus Juris and American Jurisprudence: . . “ ‘[E]...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Maryland Court of Special Appeals Case Summaries: December 26, 2011

Civil Procedure Declaratory judgment

... court, the circuit court lacked jurisdiction to issue a declaratory judgment. CASE: Vargas-Agui... be pleaded in bar to the later action." Corpus Juris Secundum, [section]308, p. 21. Some of the M...

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• January 02, 2012

• The BP Spill and the Meaning of 'Gross Negligence or Willful Misconduct

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 71-3, April 2011

• Cutting Underwater Tech USA v. Con-Dive, L.L.C., e, (5th Cir. 2012)

... on the basis of federal-question jurisdiction under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43U.S... in isolation, but in the context of the corpus juris of which they are a part, including later-en...

• Federal Circuits

• Aedpa's 'Adjudication On the Merits' Requirement: Collateral Review, Federalism, and Comity

The modern law of federal habeas corpus is a labyrinth of counterfactuals and arcane procedural hurdles that few state petitioners manage to navigate. The convoluted inquiries required arise from the need to reconcile three developments of the past four decades that remain in tension with one another: 1. the Warren Court's expansion of federal habeas relief, identified with Fay v. Noia and its progeny, 2. the Burger and Rehnquist Courts' curtailment of that expansion, identified with Wainwright v. Sykes, which partially overruled Fay, and Coleman v. Thompson, which fully overruled it, and 3. the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA). AEDPA to a certain extent codified, and to another extent modified, judicial developments of the preceding four decades. By common ...

... constitutional system, evinced by jurisprudence extending back hundreds of years and, of course, b...

• St. John's Law Review
• Vol. 78 Nbr. 3, July 2004