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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