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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pandektes, all-containing) is 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. 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.
Pandects, 1911 Britannica, Roman law, Byzantine Empire, Justinian Dynasty and Roman era books.
But the jurisprudence of the Pandects is circumscribed within a period of a hundred years, from the perpetual edict to the death of Severus Alexander: the civilians who lived under the first Caesars are seldom permitted to speak, and only three names can be attributed to the age of the republic.
Even the Pandects themselves have escaped with difficulty and danger from the common shipwreck, and criticism has pronounced that all the editions and manuscripts of the West are derived from one original.
The origin, validity, and duties of the holy institution were regulated by the tradition of the synagogue, the precepts of the gospel, and the canons of general or provincial synods; f787 and the conscience of the Christians was awed by the decrees and censures of their ecclesiastical rulers.
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