Justinian Code Definition & Meaning

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Synonyms Justinian Code American

noun

1. the body of Roman law that was codified and promulgated under Justinian I.

Justinian Code British

noun

1. a compilation of Roman imperial law made by order of Justinian I, forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis

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Constantine restricted it to three cases of crime on the part of the husband, and three on the part of the wife; but the habits of the people were too strong for his enactments, and, after one or two changes in the law, the full latitude of divorce reappeared in the Justinian Code.

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The Justinian code fixed its animation at forty days after conception.

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I could, did time permit, furnish the laws of Manu, the Justinian Code, and the Civil Code of Napoleon in parallel columns, in a way to show their common origin beyond a doubt.

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

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Digest, dī′jest, n. a body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws.

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