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What is Justinian's code?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 5/1/2022

It was a complex Legal code - a body of laws. There were four principal subparts- The Codex proper- the body of laws- in effect throughout the Empire, the Pandex or Digest ( sort of like an all-subjects index- arranged according to subject, as are modern Canon Law digests.( Pan means all in Latin, as in Pan-American). The Institutes was the third part of the code and this took the form of a textbook or technical manual for training legal staff. Finally there was the Novellae- best translated as News- a supplement of Newer laws. So the main parts of the code were the Codex, Pandex ( not Spandex), Institutes, and Supplement, or New. there you have it. get the to the Court House.

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