Codex (Corpus juris civilis)
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Corpus juris civilis. Codex
Codex constitutionum
Codex repetitae praelectionis
Codex Iustinianus
Codex Justinianus
Code (Corpus juris civilis)
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found: Révigny, J. de. Petri de Bella Perthica ... Lectura i[n]signis et fecunda super prima[-secunda] parte Codicis Dominis Iustiniani, 1519.
found: LC data base, 8-27-85(hdg.: Corpus juris civilis. Codex)
found: Columbia encycl.:under Corpus juris civilis (the Codex or Code, a collection of imperial legislation since the time of Hadrian; one of 4 parts of the Corpus juris compiled by order of Justinian I)
found: Oxford companion to law (Codex Justinianus; in A.D. 528 Justinian appointed a commission to recompile into one document all the valid imperial constitutions, with power to omit obsolete ones and to resolve conflicts; the code was published in 529, and remained in force until 534; save for fragments it has not survived; in 534 a new code, taking into account the changes caused by the subsequent compilation of the Justinian Digesta and Institutiones and taking into account new legislation since 529, prepared by a second Justinian commission, was published in supersession of the original codex; it was therefore entitled Codex repetitae praelectionis; it comprises 12 books; in later times the last 3 books became separated from the first 9 and were combined with the Institutiones and the Authenticum [and other texts; see authority record for Corpus juris civilis] in a volume called the Volumen or Volumen parvum)
found: Encyc. Britannica: Micropaedia, V,p. 645 (Codex constitutionum issued in 529 in 10 books; revised version, Codex repetitae praelectionis, issued 534, has 12 books; article refers to the work as Codex)
found: Encyc. Americana, 1983:XXIII, p. 643 (Code (Codex), in 12 books)
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1985-08-30: new
2017-02-02: revised
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