Institute. THE, in English law, is the mode of citation or reference to Chief-justice Coke's great work on English law, the name for the first part of which is Coke upon Littleton (see COKE).—Institutes is the name given to the elements of Roman or civil law. See LAW, JUSTINIAN.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 175
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