Justinian code

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

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 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

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

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins

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 Joseph Fisher