The Digest of Justinian, Volume 1

Description

When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he
ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together
formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as
the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the
Institutes, an elementary student’s textbook, and the Digest, by far the
largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was
assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in
533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries
the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an
unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil
law. Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a
team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was
first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen’s Latin text of
1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-
language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson. Links to the three
other volumes in the set: Volume 2 [Books 16-29]Volume 3 [Books 30-40]Volume 4
[Books 41-50] Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Pennsylvania Press; Revised edition (April 9, 2009)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 768 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812220331
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 39
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.3 x 9.9 inches
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