Tribonian
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Compiler of Justinian's Institutes said to have carelessly retained obsolete words from Gaius's §113.
Under Justinian, when the Adstipulator, Sponsor, and Fidepromissor had disappeared, all actions founded on contract were passively transmissible in solidum against the heirs of the defendant;
Theophilus, the colleague of Tribonian and author of the Greek version of Justinian’s Institutes, says:
The shortness of the time that sufficed Tribonian and his colleagues for the composition of Justinian’s Institutes Edition:
The Law of Torts
Byzantine jurist who headed the compilation of Justinian's Digest, raised as a possible editor of the disputed text.
The passage as it stands can hardly be as Paulus wrote it (though it is likely enough to be as Tribonian edited it), and it seems more probable that “vel machinarius” is an interpolation than that other words have been omitted.