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The most famous legal work of the ancient world was compiled at the order of the emperor Justinian (c.482-565) by the imperial quaestor Tribonian, and issued in the period 529-34. It was intended to be a complete codification of all law, to be used as the only source of law in all the courts of the empire. The work was divided into three parts: the Codex Justinianus contained all of the extant imperial enactments from the time of Hadrian; the Digesta compiled the writings of great Roman jurists; and the Institutiones was intended as a textbook for law schools. However, Justinian later found himself obliged to create more laws, and these were published as the Novellae. This three-volume Latin edition of 1872-95, prepared by the great classical historian Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) and his colleagues, is the culmination of centuries of palaeographical and legal studies.

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• Full title: Corpus iuris civilis 3 Volume Set
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 2360
• EAN: 9781108071284
• ISBN: 1108071287
• ID: 04769141
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 2802 g
• Dimensions: 185 × 259 × 121 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2014

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