Pandects (Lat.pandectae, adapted from Gr.pandektes, all-containing), a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century (A.D. 530-533).
The pandects were divided into fifty books, each book containing several titles, divided into laws, and the laws into several parts or paragraphs. The number of jurists from whose works extracts were made is thirty-nine, but the writings of Ulpian and Paulus make up quite half the work. The work was declared to be the sole source of non-statute law: commentaries on the compilation were forbidden, or even the citing of the original works of the jurists for the explaining of ambiguities in the text.
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The Corpus represented a true juridical revolution, that organised Romanlaw in a form and in an organic scheme that pretty unaltered is still in use in some countries today (apart from obvious adaptings) such as Scotland.
The work was directed by Tribonian[?], a quaestor, and distributed in three parts: Digesto (or "Pandectae"), Institutiones, and the Codex.
Also called Pandectae, the Digesto was issued in 533, and contained the works of great Roman jurists, notably Ulpian, and some other sources (i.e.
The provisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis also influenced the Canon Law of the church since it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana — the church lives under Romanlaw.
The work was directed by Tribonian, an official in Justinian's court, and distributed in three parts: Digesta (or "Pandectae"), Institutiones, and the Codex Constitutionum.
The Digesta or Pandectae consist of a collection of legal writings mostly dating back to the second and third centuries B.C. Fragments were taken out of various legal treatises and opinions and inserted in the Digest.
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