Justinian code

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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

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

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

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 Bliss, Sylvester