Justinian code
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The legal system is said to be based on the Justinian code.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
These excepted, the Justinian code, with some necessary modifications, prevailed.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
The Brehon code, the Justinian code, the Draconian code, were compilations of existing laws; and the same may be said of the common or customary law of England, of France, and of Germany.
From Landholding in England by Fisher, Joseph, the younger, of Youghal
“The authenticity of the title receives unanswerable proof from the edicts in the ‘Novellæ’ of the Justinian code.
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester
There is something truly Oriental in all this, and very little in accordance with the principles of the Justinian code: the promise of Belisarius is considered of more value than the laws of the empire.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
