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Authentics

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

{L&t. Authenticcs.] In the civil law. A Latin translation of tho novels of Justinian by an anonymous author; so called because the novels were translated entire, in order to distinguish it from the epitome made by Julian; (Epitome Novellarum, or Juliani.) 1 M<ukeld. Civil Law, 60, § 72, note (c.) It is now termed the versio vulgata (common version), and was called by the glossators. Corpus aut Jienticum. Id. ibid, note (b.) Extracts from the novels, inserted by the glossators in the Code and Institutes.

Id. 67, § 81.