institute
    n 1: an association organized to promote art or science or
         education
    v 1: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new
         department" [syn: establish, found, plant,
         constitute, institute]
    2: advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute
       proceedings" [syn: institute, bring]

Institute \In"sti*tute\ ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]t), p. a. [L.
   institutus, p. p. of instituere to place in, to institute, to
   instruct; pref. in- in + statuere to cause to stand, to set.
   See Statute.]
   Established; organized; founded. [Obs.]
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         They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and
         institute, very few to suffice.          --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).
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Institute \In"sti*tute\ ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]t), v. t. [imp. & p.
   p. Instituted ([i^]n"st[i^]*t[=u]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
   Instituting.]
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   1. To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws,
      rules, etc.
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   2. To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to
      institute a court, or a society.
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            Whenever any from of government becomes destructive
            of these ends it is the right of the people to alter
            or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.
                                                  --Jefferson
                                                  (Decl. of
                                                  Indep. ).
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   3. To nominate; to appoint. [Obs.]
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            We institute your Grace
            To be our regent in these parts of France. --Shak.
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   4. To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an
      inquiry; to institute a suit.
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            And haply institute
            A course of learning and ingenious studies. --Shak.
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   5. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to
      educate; to instruct. [Obs.]
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            If children were early instituted, knowledge would
            insensibly insinuate itself.          --Dr. H. More.
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   6. (Eccl. Law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a
      benefice, or the care of souls. --Blackstone.

   Syn: To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect;
        organize; appoint; ordain.
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Institute \In"sti*tute\, n. [L. institutum: cf. F. institut. See
   Institute, v. t. & a.]
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   1. The act of instituting; institution. [Obs.] "Water
      sanctified by Christ's institute." --Milton.
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   2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law,
      habit, or custom. --Glover.
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   3. Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept,
      maxim, or rule, recognized as established and
      authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such
      principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of
      legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of
      Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf.
      Digest, n.
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            They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
                                                  --Burke.
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            To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. --Dryden.
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   4. An institution; a society established for the promotion of
      learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute
      of Technology; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
      also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute;
      as, the Cooper Institute.
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   5. (Scots Law) The person to whom an estate is first given by
      destination or limitation. --Tomlins.
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   Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that
      department of medical science which attempts to account
      philosophically for the various phenomena of health as
      well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of
      medicine. --Dunglison.
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INSTITUTE, Scotch law. The person first called in the tailzie; the rest, or 
the heirs of tailzie, are called substitutes. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 3, 8, 8. 
See Tailzie, Heir of; Substitutes. 
     2. In the civil law, an institute is one who is appointed heir by 
testament, and is required to give the estate devised to another person, who 
is called the substitute. 

INSTITUTES. The principles or first elements of jurisprudence.
     2. Many books have borne the title of Institutes. Among the most 
celebrated in the common law, are the Institutes of Lord Coke, which, 
however, on account of the want of arrangement and the diffusion with which 
his books are written, bear but little the character of Institutes; in the, 
civil law the most generally known are those of Caius, Justinian, and 
Theophilus. 
     3. The Institutes of Caius are an abridgment of the Roman law, composed 
by the celebrated lawyer Caius or Gaius, who lived during th e reign of 
Marcus Aurelius. 
     4. The Institutes of Justinian, so called, because they are, as it 
were, masters and instructors to the. ignorant, and show an easy way to the 
obtaining of the knowledge of the law, are an abridgment of the Code and of 
the Digest, composed by order of that emperor: his intention in this 
composition was to give a summary knowledge of the law to those persons not 
versed in it, and particularly to merchants. The lawyers employed to make 
this book, were Tribonian, Theophilus, and Dorotheus. The work was first 
published in the year 533, and received the sanction of statute law, by 
order of the emperor. The Institutes of Justinian are divided into four 
books: each book is divided into two titles, and each title into parts. The 
first part is called principium, because it is the commencement of the 
title; those which follow are numbered and called paragraphs. The work 
treats of the rights of persons, of things, and of actions. The first book 
treats of persons; the second, third, and the first five titles of the 
fourth book, of things; and the remainder of the fourth book, of actions. 
This work has been much admired on account of its order and Scientific 
arrangement, which presents, at a single glance, the whole jurisprudence of 
the Romans. It is too little known and studied. The late Judge Cooper, of 
Pennsylvania, published an edition with valuable notes. 
     5. The Institutes of Theophilus are a paraphrase of those of Justinian, 
composed in Greek, by a lawyer of that name, by order of the emperor Phocas. 
Vide 1 Kent, Com. 538; Profession d'Avocat tom. ii. n. 536, page 95; Introd. 
a l'Etude du Droit Romain, p. 124; Dict. de Jurisp. h. t.; Merl. R�pert. h. 
t.; Encyclop�die de d'Alembert, h. t.