Justinian code
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These excepted, the Justinian code, with some necessary modifications, prevailed.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson
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
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
There is something truly Oriental in all this, and very little in accordance with the principles of the Justinian code: the promise of Belisarius is considered of more value than the laws of the empire.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various
