Digestorum, seu Pandectarum libri quinquaginta. Lugduni apud Gulielmu[m] Rouillium, 1581. Biblioteca Comunale "Renato Fucini" di Empoli

Pandects (Lat. pandectae, adapted from Gr. pandektes, all-containing) is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century (A. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Roman law is the legal system of Ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus ( Greek: Φλάβιος Πέτρος Σαββάτιος Ιουστινιανός; known in English as Justinian I or The 6th century is the period from 501 to 600 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. D. 530-533).

The pandects were one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law issued under Justinian I. The Corpus Juris Civilis ("Body of Civil Law" is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in Jurisprudence, issued from 529 The other two parts were Institutiones, and the Codex Constitutionum. The Corpus Juris Civilis ("Body of Civil Law" is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in Jurisprudence, issued from 529 A fourth part, the Novels (or "Novellae Constitutiones"), was added later.

The pandects were divided into fifty books, each book containing several titles, divided into laws, and the laws into several parts or paragraphs. Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society The number of jurists from whose works extracts were made is thirty-nine, but the writings of Ulpian and Paulus make up quite half the work. Domitius Ulpianus (died 228 anglicized as Ulpian, was a Roman Jurist of Tyrian ancestry Julius Paulus Prudentissimus ( Greek: ο Ιούλιος Παύλος, flourished 2nd century and 3rd century) was one of the most influential and The work was declared to be the sole source of non-statute law: commentaries on the compilation were forbidden, or even the citing of the original works of the jurists for the explaining of ambiguities in the text. ^[1]

See also

• Corpus Juris Civilis
• Civil code
• Roman law

External links

• A very good collection of resources maintained by professor Ernest Metzger. The Corpus Juris Civilis ("Body of Civil Law" is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in Jurisprudence, issued from 529 A civil code is a systematic compilation of laws designed to comprehensively deal with the core areas of Private law. Roman law is the legal system of Ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting
• The Roman Law Library by Professor Yves Lassard and Alexandr Koptev
•   "Pandects". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.  

Notes

1. ^ Ferdinand Mackeldey Handbook of the Roman Law pp. 57-58, citing Const. Tanta, § 21; Const. Dedit § 21.

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