Institutiones and digesta
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Institutiones and digesta
（Cambridge library collection, . Classics . Corpus iuris civilis ; v. 1）
Cambridge University Press, 2014
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"This edition first published 1872. This digitally printed version 2014"--T.p. verso
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Description
The most famous legal work of the ancient world was compiled at the order of the emperor Justinian (c.482-565) and issued in the period 529-34. It was intended to be a complete codification of all law, to be used as the only source of law in all the courts of the empire. The work was divided into three parts: the Codex Justinianus contained all of the extant imperial enactments from the time of Hadrian; the Digesta compiled the writings of great Roman jurists; and the Institutiones was intended as a textbook for law schools. However, Justinian later found himself obliged to create more laws, and these were published as the Novellae. This three-volume Latin edition of 1872-95, prepared by the great classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and his colleagues, is the culmination of centuries of palaeographical and legal studies. Volume 1 contains the Institutiones and Digesta.
Table of Contents
- Index titulorum
- Institutiones
- Digesta.
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