Pandects
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
A compilation of the civil law, prepared by direction of the emperor Justinian, and issued as law, A. D. 533. Called pandects (" all-receiving ") from the multiplicity of its sources. Consists of fifty books, with numerous titles, and the matter of about nine thousand extracts, varying from a single line to several octavo pages of average size. Most of the extracts are taken from the law-writings of Ulpian, Paulus, and Papinian. The work, which is also called the Digest, forms the largest fraction of the Corpus Juris Civjlis.*