Corpus Juris Civilis
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Corpus Juris of Justinian · Corpus Juris · the Corpus Juris
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Ancient Law
Justinian's comprehensive codification of Roman law.
We have the latest and most celebrated experiment of this kind in the Corpus Juris of Justinian.
The Roman Law, more fertile than the Canon Law in rules applicable to secular disputes, was not seldom resorted to by a later generation of Chancery judges, amid whose recorded dicta we often find entire texts from the Corpus Juris Civilis imbedded, with their terms unaltered, though their origin is never acknowledged.
The classifications of crimes which are contained even in the Corpus Juris of Justinian are remarkably capricious.
Institutes of Roman Law
The body of Roman law compiled under Justinian, comprising the Institutes, Digest, Code, and Novellae.
The meaning of the numbers that follow these abbreviations will be obvious to any one who opens a volume of the Corpus Juris.