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[Latin, The body of the civil law.] The name given in the early seventeenth century to the collection of Civil Law based upon the compilation and Codification of the Roman system of Jurisprudence directed by the Emperor Justinian I during the years from 528 to 534 a.d. CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS. The body of the civil law. This, is the name given to a collection of the civil law, consisting of Justinian's Institutes, the Pandects or Digest, the Code, and the Novels. |
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[40] Bartolus, whose commentaries on Justinian's Code and Digest formed a central part of the curriculum of the law faculties in the sixteenth century, served as Covarrubias's single most important authority in the doctoral oration. |
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