The Justinian Code (Corpus Juris Civilis) is the collection of Roman law compiled under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I beginning in 529 CE, led by the jurist Tribonian. It gathered centuries of imperial edicts and juristic writing into four parts, the Codex of imperial constitutions, the Digest of legal opinions, the Institutes as a teaching manual, and the later Novellae. It became the foundation of the civil law tradition followed across continental Europe and beyond.
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Document TypeCollection of fundamental works in jurisprudence 1 Creation Year Origin Place Original Language Document Type
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Why was the Justinian Code replaced by a Greek version in the Byzantine East?
An authorised Greek revision, the Basilica, begun about 876, gradually displaced the original compilations in the East.
Before the reign of the emperor Basilius there had been several Greek translations of the Pandect, the Code and the Institutes, but no authorised Greek version. The numerous constitutions of Justinian's successors and the contradictory interpretations of the jurists were a further reason for a revised Greek text under imperial authority. Basilius began the work about 876, and it was completed by his son Leo, who reigned from 886 to 911. This work, the Basilica, was arranged in sixty books, and its publication in Greek led to the gradual disuse of the original compilations of Justinian in the East.
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Collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence
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The work was directed by Tribonian, an official in Justinian's court in Constantinople.
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The text was composed and distributed almost entirely in Latin
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It is also sometimes referred to metonymically after one of its parts, the Code of Justinian.
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Infobox date: 534---df=y
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The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, enacted from 529
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Infobox date: 534---df=y
In Group: Constitutions, Charters and Statutes of Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Lead
The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis ("Body of Civil Law") is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, enacted from 529 to 534 by order of Roman Emperor Justinian I.
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