The Institutes of Justinian is a component of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the sixth-century codification of Roman law ordered by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, and it is largely based on the Institutes of Gaius, a Roman jurist of the second century AD. The other parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis are the Digest, the Codex Justinianus and the Novellae Constitutiones.
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EraPublished 21 November 533 CE; promulgated with the Digest 30 December 533 CE 1 Promulgated ByByzantine Emperor Justinian I 1 Sources
1. Institutes of Justinian (Wikipedia)
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The Institutes is a component of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the 6th-century codification of Roman law ordered by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I.
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