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    The Code of Justinian was a collection of laws and legal interpretations developed under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I between 529 and 565. It consisted of four parts: the Codex Constitutionum, which collected past imperial laws; the Digesta (or Pandectae), which extracted valuable writings from Roman jurists; the Institutiones, an elementary textbook for law students; and the Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem, Justinian's new ordinances issued after the Codex. The Codex and Digesta aimed to consolidate Roman law by standardizing legal opinions and repealing contradictory laws, while the Institutiones provided instruction and the Novels added new legislation.

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    The Code of Justinian was a collection of laws and legal interpretations developed under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I between 529 and 565. It consisted of four parts: the Codex Constitutionum, which collected past imperial laws; the Digesta (or Pandectae), which extracted valuable writings from Roman jurists; the Institutiones, an elementary textbook for law students; and the Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem, Justinian's new ordinances issued after the Codex. The Codex and Digesta aimed to consolidate Roman law by standardizing legal opinions and repealing contradictory laws, while the Institutiones provided instruction and the Novels added new legislation.

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    The Code of Justinian was a collection of laws and legal interpretations developed under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I between 529 and 565. It consisted of four parts: the Codex Constitutionum, which collected past imperial laws; the Digesta (or Pandectae), which extracted valuable writings from Roman jurists; the Institutiones, an elementary textbook for law students; and the Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem, Justinian's new ordinances issued after the Codex. The Codex and Digesta aimed to consolidate Roman law by standardizing legal opinions and repealing contradictory laws, while the Institutiones provided instruction and the Novels added new legislation.

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    Code of Justinian

    Code of Justinian, Latin Codex Justinianus, formally Corpus Juris Civilis


    (Body of Civil Law), the collections of laws and legal interpretations
    developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
    I from AD 529 to 565. Strictly speaking, the works did not constitute a new legal
    code. Rather, Justinians committees of jurists provided basically two reference
    works containing collections of past laws and extracts of the opinions of the
    great Roman jurists. Also included were an elementary outline of the law and a
    collection of Justinians own new laws.
    The Justinian code consists of four books: (1) Codex Constitutionum, (2)
    Digesta, or Pandectae, (3) Institutiones, and (4) Novellae Constitutiones Post
    Codicem.
    Work on the Codex Constitutionum began soon after Justinians accession in
    527, when he appointed a 10-man commission to go through all the known
    ordinances, or constitutions, issued by the emperors, weed out the
    contradictory and obsolescent material, and adapt all provisions to the
    circumstances of that time. The resultant 10-book Codex Constitutionum was
    promulgated in 529, all imperial ordinances not included in it being repealed. In
    534 a new commission issued a revised Codex (Codex Repetitae Praelectionis)
    containing 12 books; the revisions were based partly on Justinians own new
    legislation.

    The Digesta was drawn up between 530 and 533 by a commission of 16


    lawyers, under the presidency of the jurist Tribonian. They collected and
    examined all the known writings of all the authorized jurists; extracted from
    them whatever was deemed valuable, generally selecting only one extract on
    any given legal point; and rephrased the originals whenever necessary for
    clarity and conciseness. The results were published in 50 books, each book
    subdivided into titles. All juridical statements not selected for the Digesta were
    declared invalid and were thenceforth never to be cited at law.
    The Institutiones, compiled and published in 533 under Tribonians supervision
    and relying on such earlier texts as those of Gaius, was an elementary
    textbook, or outline, of legal institutions for the use of first-year law students.
    The Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem (or simply, in English, the Novels)
    comprised several collections of new ordinances issued by Justinian himself
    between 534 and 565, after publication of the revised Codex.

    Latin was the language of all the works except the Novels, which were almost
    all published in Greek, though official Latin translations existed for the western
    Roman provinces.

    Quoted from Brittanica: http://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Justinian

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