See _Le Code Civil, livre du centenaire_ (Paris, 1904), a collection of essays by French and foreign lawyers. (J. P. E.)
CODIAEUM, a small genus of plants belonging to the natural order Euphorbiaceae. One species, _C. variegatum_, a native of Polynesia, is cultivated in greenhouses, under the name of croton, for the sake of its leaves, which are generally variegated with yellow, and are often twisted or have the blades separated into distinct portions.
CODICIL (Lat. _codicillus_, a little book or tablet, diminutive of _codex_), a supplement to a will (q.v.), containing anything which a testator desires to add, or which he wishes to retract, to explain or to alter. In English law a codicil requires to be executed with the same formalities as a will under the Wills Act 1837.
CODILLA, the name given to the broken fibres which are separated from the flax during the scutching process. On this account it is sometimes termed scutching tow. Quantities of this material are used along with heckled tow in the production of tow yarns.
CODINUS, GEORGE [GEORGIOS KODINOS], the reputed author of three extant works in Byzantine literature. Their attribution to him is merely a matter of convenience, two of them being anonymous in the MSS. Of Codinus himself nothing is known; it is supposed that he lived towards the end of the 15th century. The works referred to are the following:--
1. _Patria_ ([Greek: Ta Patria tês Kônstantinoupoleôs]), treating of the history, topography, and monuments of Constantinople. It is divided into five sections: (_a_) the foundation of the city; (_b_) its situation, limits and topography; (_c_) its statues, works of art, and other notable sights; (_d_) its buildings; (_e_) the construction of the church of St Sophia. It was written in the reign of Basil II. (976-1025), revised and rearranged under Alexius I. Comnenus (1081-1118), and perhaps copied by Codinus, whose name it bears in some (later) MSS. The chief sources are: the _Patria_ of Hesychius Illustrius of Miletus, an anonymous (_c._ 750) brief chronological record ([Greek: Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai]), and an anonymous account ([Greek: diêgêsis]) of St Sophia (ed. T. Preger in _Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum_, fasc. i., 1901, to be followed by the _Patria_ of Codinus). Procopius, _De Aedificiis_ and the poem of Paulus Silentiarius on the dedication of St Sophia should be read in connexion with this subject.