Justinian code

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At this Italian city, in the middle of the twelfth century, a celebrated teacher named Irnerius gathered about him thousands of pupils for the study of the Justinian code.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

“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

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

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

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

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

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

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