Justinian code
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The panel created a single, uniform code known as the Justinian Code.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The Justinian Code decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Eliot has always operated on the principle that the critic should erect his personal tastes into law, and in this book he lays down a kind of Justinian Code of poetic greatness.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Justinian Code of the Byzantine Empire, for example, denied church sanctuary primarily to criminals convicted of high treason or sacrilege.
From Time Magazine Archive
They first collected and reduced the imperial constitutions from the time of Hadrian downwards, which was promulgated as the "Justinian Code."
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
