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Constantine I (or the Great) did not create a law code. The Romans did not need to simplify the Law of the Twelve Tablets. This law was an archaic one. It had been compiled in 450 BC, some 780 years before the reign Constantine I. It had long been superseded by centuries of further development of Roman law.

The emperor who simplified Roman law was Justinian I (or the Great). He commissioned the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) which was published in a first edition in in 529 and a in a second one in 534 (197 years after the death of Constantine I). . It was a very comprehensive digest of centuries of Roman civil law. It was a review of imperial decrees (laws issued by emperors) going back 400 years (to the time of Hadrian). It scrapped obsolete or unnecessary laws, made changes when necessary and clarified obscure passages. Its aim was to put the laws in a single book (previously they were written on many different scrolls), harmonise conflicting views among jurists which arose from centuries of poorly organised development of Roman law and have a uniform and coherent body of law.

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