Digest (Roman law)
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"Quod attinet ad ius Civile, servi pro nullis habentur: non tamen et iure nature, quia quod ad ius naturale attinet, omnes homines aequales sunt"--Digest 50, 17, 32 by Ulpian English: "According to the law civil slaves are not considered persons; however, according to the law of nature, all people are equal." |
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The Digest, also known as the Pandects (Latin: Digesta seu Pandectae, adapted from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης pandektes, "all-containing"), is a name given to a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I in the 6th century CE (530-533). It is divided into 50 books.
The Digest was part of a reduction and codification of all Roman laws up to that time, which later came to be known as the Corpus Juris Civilis (lit. "Body of Civil Law"). The other two parts were a collection of statutes, the Codex (Code), which survives in a second edition, and an introductory textbook, the Institutes; all three parts were given force of law. The set was intended to be complete, but Justinian passed further legislation, which was later collected separately as the Novellae Constitutiones (New Laws or, conventionally, the "Novels").
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