To disentangle these completely now is impossible, and it is probably best for expository purposes to take the codes as giving what the Mosaic legislation had become at the time of the writer.
These, as has more than once been pointed out, were not of the same character as our legal codes are.
From the appearance in the codes of laws which would have little or no meaning if originated in the time of the Deuteronomist, it has rightly been concluded that there are very ancient and Mosaic elements in them.
Our conception of that is, clearly, not valid for these ancient codes; and we need not be surprised if we find that they will not bear being pressed home in all their details, as modern codes must be, and are meant to be.
That there were both Hindu codes and Mohammedan codes in existence which claimed and were believed to have Divine authority made no difference in India.
Deuteronomy nor any other of the legal codes can be taken as complete statements of what was legally permitted or forbidden in Israel.
Great practical difficulties have arisen in India, Sir Henry Maine assures us, from applying the ideas of Western lawyers to the ancient and sacred codes of the East.
The result of Driver's careful tabulation of the subjects dealt with in the two codes is "that the laws in JE,[6] viz.
And the state of things in which these various codes originated is more and more coming to be conceived in the manner stated by Dr.
In fact the form and contents of all the Old Testament codes can be accounted for only on this supposition.
They are selections which needed special attention, not complete codes covering the whole of life.
That is the representation of the Books of Samuel; and the absence of any similar law from the codesbefore Deuteronomy confirms the view that the earthly kingship was not an essential part of the polity of Israel, but a mere episode.
Its relations to the other codes are as the same critic states (p.
By many existing codes civil, however, a guarantee which imposes on the surety a greater liability than that of the principal is not thereby invalidated, but the liability is merely reducible to that of the principal (Fr.
According to several codes civil sureties are made divisible into conventional, legal and judicial (Fr.
It is, however, sanctioned by many existing codes (Fr.
In this connexion It may be stated in general terms that whatever extinguishes the principal obligation necessarily determines that of the surety (which is accessory thereto), not only in England but elsewhere also (Codes Civil, Fr.
However, this beneficium divisionis, as it is called in Roman law, is recognized by many existing codes (Fr.
There are so many codes and ciphers," Barby added.
We were telling him how the gang used my plane, with me flying it, to smuggle their coded messages, and he asked us about it because he had never heard of codes before!
He had some experience with codes while in the Navy, I believe.
Why have the Hindus in "caste" the most elaborate codeswe know.
It is not what code is the true code of life, the Jewish code, the Christian, the Buddhist, but why are these Codes at all?
The ideas, the knowledge, the codes of conduct, the outlook on life that suit a woman are entirely unfitted for a boy.
And this is but one example of how Puritanism was practically a rejection of Christianity and a return to the codes of Judaism, which suited those iron warriors much better than Christian ethics.
Priests and monks apart, the codes of conduct are not taken from religion.
We cannot go back to the codes of Moses or Mahommed; we cannot accept the narrow racial limitations of Hinduism; we have outgrown the simple ethics of Zoroaster and the Egyptians.
The codes given are ways to reach heaven, they are by no means codesfor ordinary life.
The codes of Buddha and of Christ are exaggerations, that is true; they cannot be lived up to in their entirety, that is also true.
They had also codesof morals and an extensive philosophy, but practically there was no connection.
Yet the Northmen had codes of conduct fitted to their stage of civilisation.
And therefore, it may be, do these codes of Buddha and Christ live.
They lack so greatly all that appeals to mankind; they are so much codes in the head and not for the heart; they are as mathematical drawings compared to a work of art; they do not ring true.
Why have the Christians and Buddhists adopted codesthey cannot act up to?
Hollywood codes (which regulate distribution even of foreign films in this country) state unequivocally that homosexuality may not be portrayed or suggested.
Hollywood codes are growing less stringent by the day, with the general relaxation of censorship, and by next year there should be some additions to this list.
Woman turns from what she is taught to believe are God's laws to the laws of man; and in his written codes she finds herself still a slave.
The influence of canon law upon the criminal codes of England and America has but recently attracted the attention of legal minds.
When abolitionists left parties and churches, because of their pro-slavery codes and creeds, they began alike to purify their organizations in order to win back that noble army of patriots.
While the human soul, like the infinite in wisdom and love, is ever governed by the eternal law of progress, creeds and codes are always changing.
Accordingly, Tilton mixes the two codes up in the most absurd way.
All the old administrative machinery remained operative, the old codes of etiquette continued to claim strict observance, and the old functions of government were discharged.
Shotoku Taishi, Japan thought seriously of having recourse to China as the fountain-head of the arts, the crafts, the literature, and the moral codes which she borrowed during the period from Korea.
No such codes had ever previously existed in Japan.
The questions asked about the Code include, "What's it got that earlier codes did not have?
Although Codes for the naming of cultivated plants have existed, in some shape or form, for nearly 100 years, they have been printed in obscure publications, quite inaccessible to ordinary mortals.
In the codes of the Old Testament there are no laws of adoption.
Both codes provide that one who is an accidental homicide shall escape the penalty, but they do it in different ways.
In both codes the principle is manifest that the loss of a girl's honor was to be compensated by money, though Deut.
The same general principles of the limits of responsibility underlay the twocodes in these cases, though they differ in details.
In the laws concerning the injury of slaves the twocodes differ.
The two codes belong to quite a different legal development, as is shown by the fact that the Babylonian law refers to "a woman of a god," i.
Of these five codes the last two are almost entirely religious and ceremonial, and as the similarities between the Babylonian and Hebrew ceremonial have already been pointed out, they need not be considered in this connection.
This principle is applied very extensively in both codes in providing restitution for damage done.
On the other hand, there are those who believe that the parallels and analogies between the two codes are due to the common Semitic origin of the two systems.
It is clear, however, that long {188} centuries before the time of Moses or Minos or Romulus the people living in the lower Euphrates-Tigris valley developed legal codes of a high and complex order.
The religious codes composed during that period allow the study of "the other sciences" only "on occasion," and only to those who have completely mastered Talmudic and rabbinic literature.
This school, which provided a complete religious and juridical education based on the Talmud and the rabbinical codes of law, received the sanction of the Polish Government.
Or knocking her suddenly senseless and escaping--I, who need not be bound by Wolf's codes either.
The other party to the bet is bound by the ironclad codes of Wolf to inflict no permanent physical damage (no injury that will not heal with three suncourses).
The codes of Terra had made some superficial impress on Rakhal, but down deep his own world held sway.
Teddy's friendship had seemed to be definitely won on an occasion which brought home to one the quaint resemblance between the codesand ways of dogs and those of schoolboys.
At length, after the thirteenth century, the recent discovery and diligent study of the ancient codes of Justinian had shown in his person the successor of the Caesars of Rome and of the Emperors of Constantinople.
In the majority ofcodes the cipher words are virtually copied as they come out of a dictionary.
We have long specialized in the manufacture of Time and Labor Saving Account Books, Grain Tables and Cipher Codesfor Grain Dealers.
From his writings the casual reader would imagine him to be a red-hot fire-brand, launching out against all the accepted codes by which we live.
I really will not go so fast in mathematics, I will instil my own sense of morality in my boys, I will do something to alter the ridiculous codes which govern their mode of conduct.
They are very different from the Marlton people: their codes are much less stringent, they are far more tolerant, they seem to get much more out of life.
Beresford, Gilbert Cannan and others are trying to express here, that the young man of to-day is not content to accept religion, or the codes of morality or conduct which his father believed in and acted upon.
Therefore the various codes established a sort of compromise between the prophetic ideal and the priestly practice, in which the ideal was by no means supreme.
Ethical elements, greater or smaller, enter into all religions and codes of law of the various nations.
Neither in the Deuteronomic law nor in the late codes of Maimonides and Joseph Caro is there any toleration for idolatrous practices, for instruments of idol-worship, or for idolaters.
Still, from the very beginning the Law of the covenant contained a certain element which distinguished it from all the priestly and political codes of antiquity.
These exhortations to tenderness increase in later codes of law under the prophetic influence, until finally the rabbis extended them as far as possible.
Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic.
If these Jewish ideas were obsolete they might not be worth our attention, but our creeds and codes are still tinged with the Mosaic laws and customs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "codes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
