The great collections of Roman law made under the emperors, from the private codes of the third and fourth centuries to the code, digest, institutes and novels commissioned by Justinian, together with the praetor's edict they gathered. A code belongs here when its cited article describes a compilation or edict of Roman law made in the imperial period. It excludes the Byzantine reworkings, which sit in their own group, and the codes of the Germanic kingdoms.
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Wikipedia: Praetor's Edict
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During the early Empire the Praetor's Edict was revised to become the Edictum perpetuum.
Codex Gregorianus (Wikipedia)
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The Codex Gregorianus (Eng. Gregorian Code) is the title of a collection of constitutions (legal pronouncements) of Roman emperors over a century and a half from the 130s to 290s AD.
Codex Hermogenianus (Wikipedia)
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The Codex Hermogenianus (Eng. Hermogenian Code) is the title of a collection of constitutions (legal pronouncements) of the Roman emperors of the first tetrarchy (Diocletian, Maximian Augusti, and Constantius and Galerius Caesars), mostly from the years 293-94.
Code of Justinian (Wikipedia)
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The Code of Justinian (Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople.
Codex Theodosianus (Wikipedia)
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The Codex Theodosianus ("Theodosian Code") is a compilation of the laws of the Roman Empire made by the Christian emperors from 311 A.D. until 437 A.D.
Corpus Juris Civilis (Wikipedia)
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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 to 534 by order of Roman Emperor Justinian I.
Digest (Roman law) (Wikipedia)
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The Digest (Latin: Digesta), also known as the Pandects (Pandectae; Ancient Greek: Πανδέκται, Pandéktai, "All-Containing"), was a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (r.
Institutes (Justinian) (Wikipedia)
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The Institutes (Latin: Institutiones) is a component of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the 6th-century codification of Roman law ordered by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.
Novellae Constitutiones (Wikipedia)
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The Novellae Constitutiones ("new constitutions"; Ancient Greek: Νεαραὶ διατάξεις, romanized: Nearaì diatáxeis), or Justinian's Novels, are now considered one of the four major units of Roman law initiated by Roman emperor Justinian I in the course of his long reign (AD 527-565).
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