or CADHI, a judge of the civil affairs in the Turkish empire. It is generally taken for the judge of a town; judges of provinces being distinguished by the appellation of mollas.

We find numerous complaints of the avarice, ini- quity, and extortion, of the Turkish cadis: all justice is here venal; the people bribe the cadi, the cadi's bribe the moulas, the moulas the cadilechers, and the cadil- echers the mufti. Each cadi has his sergeants, who are to summon persons to appear and answer complaints. If the party summoned fails to appear at the hour ap- pointed, sentence is passed in favour of his adversary. It is usually vain to appeal from the sentences of the cadi, since the affair is never heard anew, but judg- ment is passed on the case as stated by the cadi. But the cadis are often cashiered and punished for crying in- justice with the baltimado and mullets; the law, how- ever, does not allow them to be put to death. Con- stantinople has had cadis ever since the year 1390, when Bajazet I. obliged John Paleologus, emperor of the Greeks, to receive cadis into the city to judge all con- troversies happening between the Greeks and the Turks settled there. In some countries of Africa, the cadis are also judges of religious matters. Among the Moors, cadis is the denomination of their higher order of priests or doctors, answering to the rabbins among the Jews.