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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...
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  • laws in a certain field—see Corpus Juris Civilis—and was later adopted by medieval jurists in assembling the Corpus Juris Canonici. Later the term was used...
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  • century Corpus Juris Civilis of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, the first codification of Roman law and civil law. The name Corpus Juris literally...
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    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...
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    years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law...
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  • used in the above sense when the Corpus Juris Civilis of the Christian Roman emperors is meant. The expression corpus juris may also mean, not the collection...
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    Byzantine codes and constitutions derived largely from Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis, their main objectives were idealistic and ceremonial rather than...
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    Latin as transmitted through the Corpus Juris Civilis. The researcher Zachary Chitwood claims that the Corpus Juris Civilis was inaccessible in Latin, particularly...
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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...
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    He taught the newly recovered Roman lawcode of Justinian I, the Corpus Juris Civilis, among the liberal arts at the University of Bologna, his native...
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    Roman laws up to that time, which later came to be known as the Corpus Juris Civilis (lit. 'Body of Civil Law'). The other two parts were a collection...
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  • and Novels begin to be called Corpus Juris Civilis (body of the civil law) to differentiate them from the Corpus Juris Canonici (body of the canon, or...
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    the Corpus Juris Civilis (Byzantium 533), as commissioned and promulgated by the Emperor Justinian I (r.527–565), namely, in that part of the Corpus called...
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    the Corpus Juris Civilis code hard to use for Greek speakers, even in the capital of Constantinople. Furthermore, many of the laws within the Corpus Juris...
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    Mediterranean and remained a major power. The empire's law code, the Corpus Juris Civilis or "Code of Justinian", was rediscovered in Northern Italy in the...
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    European society and culture include the re-establishment of the Corpus Juris Civilis, or the Roman rule of law, which counterbalanced the papal power...
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    systems trace their history through the Napoleonic Code back to the Corpus Juris Civilis of Roman law. The primary contrast between the two systems is the...
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  • were experts in interpreting canon law, a basis of which was the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, which is considered the source of the civil law legal...
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    included in Justinian's 6th-century Digest of Justinian (part of the Corpus Juris Civilis), although the Lex Rhodia is itself now lost. After the fall of Rome...
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    aspects of his legacy was the uniform rewriting of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, which was first applied throughout Continental Europe and is still...
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    medieval comments on Justinian's codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis. He was not proficient in the classics, but he was called "the Idol...
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    system shows influences of Roman customary law and Justinian I's Corpus Juris Civilis (529–534). It is the world's oldest surviving constitution of any...
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    Justinianic era, with fragments and commentaries codified into the Corpus Juris Civilis. The Roman Republic had, since it acquired an empire, struggled with...
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    the group of legal ideas and systems ultimately derived from the Corpus Juris Civilis, but heavily overlain by Napoleonic, Germanic, canonical, feudal...
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    mancipi and res nec mancipi was formally abolished by Justinian in Corpus Juris Civilis. De Zulueta, Francis (1946). The Institutes of Gaius. OUP. ISBN 0-19-825112-2...
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    the Corpus Juris Civilis did not provide the legal certainty which Melanchthon deemed necessary and could not guarantee that the Corpus Juris Civilis would...
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    to be cited as primary sources for the Codex Theodosianus and the Corpus Juris Civilis, provided that Papinian's views prevailed whenever those of the four...
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    the Twelve Tables of Roman law (first compiled in 450 BC) and the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, also known as the Justinian Code (429–534 AD). In India...
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    Sophia at Constantinople. Justinian was also responsible for the corpus juris civilis, or the "body of civil law," which is the foundation of law for many...
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  • exchange, and in opposition to the Imperial Roman view, found in the Corpus Juris Civilis, that the parties to an exchange were entitled to try to outwit one...
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