Justinian code

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The Justinian code fixed its animation at forty days after conception.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Digest, dī′jest, n. a body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The Brehon code, the Justinian code, the Draconian code, were compilations of existing laws; and the same may be said of the common or customary law of England, of France, and of Germany.

From Landholding in England by Fisher, Joseph, the younger, of Youghal

At this Italian city, in the middle of the twelfth century, a celebrated teacher named Irnerius gathered about him thousands of pupils for the study of the Justinian code.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

Irnerius followed him five-and-twenty years later and introduced the Justinian code.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe