continental code

But after all, according to the Continental code of etiquette, it's very bad form for husband and wife to love each other.

But they did have a discarded telegraph key and they did know the old Continental code.

Her husband, a man of high principle, had declined to take part in an "affair of honor," as recognized by the Continental code; hence his ruin.

Every vice, every malpractice, every Irish deviance from the accepted continental code was ruthlessly laid bare.

It will be observed that a number of characters in the continental code are replaced by fractionals in the inland code.

Presidential limousine, a 1961 Lincoln Continental code named SS-100-X:

These continental codes were all composed in Latin, whilst Anglo-Saxon was used for those of England, beginning with the Code of Ethelbert of Kent (602).

The standard types of contract (sale, contract for work, hire, contract for services) regulated in most continental codes and the characteristics of each of these contracts were developed by Roman jurisprudence.

The Modern International Morse code, or continental code, was created by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848 and initially used for telegraphy between Hamburg and Cuxhaven in Germany.

The language of all these continental codes was Latin; the only known codes drawn up in any Germanic language were the Anglo-Saxon laws, beginning with the Laws of Æthelberht (7th century).

The oldest known manuscript version of it, the First Riustring Manuscript (now in Oldenburg) is, besides the oldest extant text in Frisian, one of the oldest remaining continental codes of Germanic law.