Institutes of Justinian
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Institutes of Roman Law
Elementary legal textbook compiled under Justinian, one of the main divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
Institutes of Justinian.
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Ancient Law
The compiled legal textbook published under Justinian's authority, quoted for its definition of Roman law's two components.
“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.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Justinian's introductory Roman legal treatise organized around Persons, Things, and Actions.
But on the whole the arrangement in which the compilers of Justinian’s ‘Institutes’ followed Gaius, distributing law in Law of Persons, Law of Things, and Law of Actions, became the point of departure for theories of legal classification.
The classification of the Roman Institutes, assigning the Law of Actions not to the first place but to the third and last, is one testimony to the formation of a habit of obedience to the law so confirmed as to be unconscious;
The respect, which once amounted to reverence, for the classification of law in the Roman Institutes, though it has had time to culminate and decline, is relatively modern.
The Law of Torts
Justinian's Institutes, the Roman legal text quoted for its statement of the three precepts of law and its technical sense of delict.
Let us turn to one of the best-known sentences in the introductory chapter of the Institutes, copied from a lost work of Ulpian.
“Such wrongs as the withholding of possession by a defendant who bona fide believes in his own title are not delicts, at any rate in the specific sense in which the term is used in the Institutes;