What ideas did the Justinian code preserve?

Answer 1

The Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law), which had also been dubbed Justinian code, was compendium which collected, edited and revised 400 years of imperial edicts (laws issued by emperors). It preserved the principles or Roman law whereby the law is equal for everybody, nobody is above the law, everyone has the right to a legal trial and the right to appeal, that the burden of proof rests on the accuser, not the accused, and that laws can be repealed.