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

“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

These excepted, the Justinian code, with some necessary modifications, prevailed.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

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

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

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various