The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.
1The legal system is said to be based on the Justinian code.
2The Justinian code -the system of law she developed with Justinian, her husband and co-ruler -underpins much of European law.
3The importance of the Justinian Code, however, is not that of mere history.
4The law was finally adjusted in the Justinian Code, by a compromise permitting six per cent.
5A new code of laws was made by great jurists, on the principles of the Justinian Code.
6They first collected and reduced the imperial constitutions from the time of Hadrian downwards, which was promulgated as the " Justinian Code."
7The Theodosian Code, of 438 A.D., and the Justinian Code, of 528 and 534 A.D., were the final results.
8In the very year, and at the same time, that Justinian and Theodora were preparing the Justinian Code, Benedict was busy devising "The Monastic Rules."
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