Basilica
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The name given to a compilation of Roman and Greek law, prepared about A. D. 880 by the Emperor Basilius, and published by his successor, Leo the Philosopher. It was written in Greek, was mainly an abridgment of Justinian's Corpus Juris, and comprised sixty books, only a portion of which are extant. It remained the law of the Bastern Empire until the fall of Constantinople, in 1453.