PANDECTS, civil law. The name of an abridgment or compilation of the civil law, made by order of the emperor Justinian, and to which he gave the force of law. It is also known by the name of Digest. (q. v.) ...
The Pandects contain all whatsoever Justinian drew out of 150,000 verses of the old books of the Roman law. The style of the Digest is very grave and pure, and differs not much from the eloquentist speech that ever the Romans used.
Justinian ordered that the law be struck anew into a single publication (it turned out to be several publications) which became known by several names such as the Pandects, Justinian's Institutes and Corpus Juris Civilis (literally, ...
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