Justinian code

Constantine restricted it to three cases of crime on the part of the husband, and three on the part of the wife; but the habits of the people were too strong for his enactments, and, after one or two changes in the law, the full latitude of divorce reappeared in the Justinian Code.

The Justinian code fixed its animation at forty days after conception.

I could, did time permit, furnish the laws of Manu, the Justinian Code, and the Civil Code of Napoleon in parallel columns, in a way to show their common origin beyond a doubt.

Irnerius followed him five-and-twenty years later and introduced the Justinian code.

Digest, dī′jest, n. a body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws.