HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Detailed explanation-1: -This compilation is sometimes referred to as “Justinian’s Code, ‘’ but in fact the Code was only one element. The compilation of Justinian actually consisted of three different original parts: the Digest (Digesta), the Code (Codex), and the Institutes (Institutiones).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Corpus Juris Civilis has four parts: the Code, which consists of 4, 652 laws; the Digest, a 50-‐ volume collection of decisions made by respected judges; the Institutes, a kind of textbook of legal procedures, and the Novels, which contain laws introduced by Justinian and his immediate successors.
Detailed explanation-3: -Justinian’s compilation strongly influenced canon law (the law of the church) and provided the foundation of law in all civil law jurisdictions (i.e., in continental Western Europe and in many countries colonized by continental Europeans).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Code of Justinian (Latin: Codex Justinianus, Justinianeus or Justiniani) is one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople.