Justinian
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Emperor Justinian · the Emperor Justinian · Justinian I · Justinian's Institutes · Codex of Justinian · Divus Justinian · Divus Justinianus · Emp. Justinian · code of Justinian · divus Iustinianus
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Institutes of Roman Law
Byzantine emperor under whose authority the Corpus Juris Civilis was compiled, comprising the Institutes, Digest, Code, and Novellae.
Code of Justinian.
Institutes of Justinian.
Digest or Pandects of Justinian.
Ancient Law
The Roman emperor under whose authority Roman law was codified and equity fused with civil law.
We have the latest and most celebrated experiment of this kind in the Corpus Juris of Justinian.
A fragment of the wonderful system which they built up survives in the Pandects of Justinian, and supplies evidence that their works took the form of treatises on all parts of Roman law, but chiefly that of commentaries on the Edict.
“All nations,” says the Institutional Treatise published under the authority of the Emperor Justinian, “who are ruled by laws and customs, are governed partly by their own particular laws, and partly by those laws which are common to all mankind.
The Rights of War and Peace
Byzantine emperor who rejected an embassy from Totilas.
Upon the same grounds Justinian rejected an embassy from Totilas, and the same was done by the Goths at Urbino to messengers from Belisarius.
as may be seen in many records, and particularly in the code of Justinian, under the title of the power of relatives to correct in order to reform offenders.
So that rights of this kind are to be reckoned among those, which Justinian says, are the offspring of stern necessity, the calamities of men driving them to the use of such means.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Roman emperor associated with the Institutes and Digest of Roman law.
As I have just stated, he sees an analogy in this law-book to the Institutes of the Roman Justinian, but he assigns to it the prodigious date of 1,280 years before Christ.
He seems, in fact, to have regarded it as standing to this projected Digest much in the same relation as the Roman Institutes to the celebrated Digest of the Emperor Justinian.
Almost all the English law on the subject of the descent of Personalty, a great deal of Continental law on the same subject, and some part of our law of Realty, has for its foundation the 118th Novel, or Novella Constitutio, of Justinian.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Roman/Byzantine emperor whose legal Novel is cited.
It has come to us from the Canon law, or else from the Roman law, more particularly as declared in the 118th Novel of Justinian, but it is not at all confined to societies deeply affected by Civil and Canon law.
The earliest evidence we have that this order of ideas was stirring the Christian community is, I believe, a Constitution of Justinian in the Code (v.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Byzantine emperor under whose legal reforms confiscation of a condemned person's property was limited to cases of high-treason.
and under Justinian, confiscation took place only in case of high-treason.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Roman emperor associated with the Institutes, quoted for maxims defining jurisprudence, justice, and natural law.
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Law in a Free State
Roman emperor and codifier of law, credited with confirming the legitimation doctrine and quoted on the naturalness of adoption.
I think it was Justinian who said “adoption should follow nature, and it seems unnatural that a son should be older than his father.
We find that the principle of the Scotch law was established as part of the civil code by the Emperor Constantine, and was confirmed by the Emperor Justinian- and furthermore, that this principle was adopted by Pope Alexander the Third, about the middle of the twelfth century.