- JUSTINIAN PANDECTS
- a code of Roman laws compiled under the direction of the Emperor Justinian, with a digest of the commentaries of the jurists thereupon.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
JUSTINIAN PANDECTS
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Pandects — • Name of part of Justinian s legal compilation Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pandects Pandects † … Catholic encyclopedia
Pandects — (Lat. pandectae , adapted from Gr. pandektes , all containing) is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century (A.D. 530 533).The pandects were one part of the Corpus Juris… … Wikipedia
Justinian I — • Roman Emperor (527 65) Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Justinian I Justinian I † … Catholic encyclopedia
Pandects — ▪ Roman law digest Greek“All Encompassing”Latin Pandectae, also called Digest collection of passages from the writings of Roman jurists, arranged in 50 books and subdivided into titles according to the subject matter. In AD 530 the… … Universalium
Justinian, Code of — Collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565. Strictly speaking, they did not constitute a new legal code. Rather, Justinian s committees of jurists provided… … Universalium
Justinian — Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 527 to 565, renowned for codification of the Roman law. See Florentine Pandects; Institutes of Justinian; Novels; Pandects … Ballentine's law dictionary
Pandects — The Digests or Pandects, a compilation of the Roman law under Justinian, which was published in the year 533 A. D. See Florentine Pandects … Ballentine's law dictionary
pandects — /paendekts/ A compilation of Roman law, consisting of selected passages from the writings of the most authoritative of the older jurists, methodically arranged, prepared by Tribonian with the assistance of sixteen associates, under a commission… … Black's law dictionary
PANDECTS — the digest of civil law executed at the instance of the Emperor Justinian between the years 530 and 533 … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Pandects — n. collection of civil or Roman law which were collected for the emperor Justinian in the 16th century … English contemporary dictionary
