Institutes of Justinian
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
An elementary treatise on Roman law written in the 6th century. See Corpus juris civilis.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
One of the four component parts or principal divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis, being an elementary treatise on the Roman law, in four books. This work was compiled from earlier sources, (resting principally on the Institutes of Gaius,) by a commission composed of Tribanian and two others, by command and under direction of the emperor Justinian, and was first published November 21, A. D. 533
Defined under Institutes in Black's Law Dictionary.