Justinian code
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“The authenticity of the title receives unanswerable proof from the edicts in the ‘Novellæ’ of the Justinian code.
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss
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 William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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 Hutton Webster
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
These excepted, the Justinian code, with some necessary modifications, prevailed.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
