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Justinian code

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civil law
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The Justinian Code decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The panel created a single, uniform code known as the Justinian Code.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Eliot has always operated on the principle that the critic should erect his personal tastes into law, and in this book he lays down a kind of Justinian Code of poetic greatness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of his many great projects, only two fully succeeded: the Justinian Code and the building of the magnificent Church of St. Sophia.

From Time Magazine Archive

They first collected and reduced the imperial constitutions from the time of Hadrian downwards, which was promulgated as the "Justinian Code."

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch