Bible Encyclopedias

Calas, Jean
A tradesman of Toulouse, whose son committed suicide, and who was charged with murdering him to prevent his going over to the Catholic Church; was tried,

Camden, Charles Pratt, First Earl of
A distinguished British lawyer and statesman, chief-justice of the King's Bench in George I.'s reign, and ultimately Lord Chancellor of England; opposed,

Cassation, Court of
A court of highest and last appeal in France, appointed in the case of appeal to revise the forms of a procedure in an inferior court; it consists of

Cheyne, George
a physician and medical writer, born in aberdeenshire, in practice in london; suffered from corpulency, being 32 stone in weight, but kept it down by vegetable and milk diet, which he recommended to others in the like case; wrote on fevers, nervous disorders, and hygiene; wrote also on fluxions (1671-1743).

Cockburn, Sir Alexander
lord chief-justice of england from 1859; called to the bar in 1829; became liberal member for southampton in 1847, and solicitor-general in 1850; was prosecutor in the palmer case, judge in the tichborne, and an arbitrator in the alabama (1802-1880).

Coleridge, John Duke, Lord
an english lawyer, cousin of hartley coleridge; after serving in inferior appointments, appointed lord chief-justice of england in 1880; when at the bar he was prominent in connection with tichborne case.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Poet, philosopher, and critic, born in Devonshire; passionately devoted to classical and metaphysical studies; educated at Christ's Hospital; had Charles

Colot
the name of a family of french surgeons in the 16th and 17th century, distinguished for their skill in operating in the case of stone.

Dilke, Sir Charles Wentworth
English publicist and politician, grandson of the preceding, born at Chelsea; called to the bar; travelled in America and the English colonies, and wrote

Edward, Thomas
Naturalist, born at Gosport; bred a shoemaker; settled in Banff, where he devoted his leisure to the study of animal nature, and collected numerous specimens

Fritz, Father
name given to frederick the great by his subjects "with a familiarity which did not breed contempt in his case."

Gigman
carlyle's name for a man who prides himself on, and pays all respect to, respectability; derived from a definition once given in a court of justice by a witness who, having described a person as respectable, was asked by the judge in the case what he meant by the word; "one that keeps a gig," was the answer.

Gladiator
One who fought in the arena at Rome with men or beasts for the amusement of the people, originally in connection with funeral games, under the belief,

Golden Bull
an imperial edict, issued by the emperor charles iv., which determined the law in the matter of the imperial elections, and that only one member of each electoral house should have a vote; so called from the gold case enclosing the imperial seal attached.

Hauser, Kaspar
A young man of about 16 who mysteriously appeared in Nürnberg one day in 1828, was found to be as helpless and ignorant as a baby, and held a letter

Inertia
that property of bodies by which they remain in a state of rest or of motion in a straight line till disturbed by a force moving them in the one case or arresting them in the other.

Institute of France
Established by the Directory in 1795, to take the place of the four academies suppressed by the Convention two years previously. In 1816 Louis XVIII.

Jetsam
part of the cargo of a ship thrown overboard to lighten her in a case of peril.

Job, Book of
By Carlyle "one of the grandest things ever written with pen; grand in its sincerity, in its simplicity, in its epic melody and repose of reconcilement";