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| | European Law: Philadelphia Rare Books (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The Corpus is composed of four parts, the Institutes, the Digest (or Pandects), the Code, and the Novels (or New Constitutions). |
 | | While these works are ancient, and were studied together, the title Corpus Juris Civilis is not original to the compilation, but was applied starting in the 16th century, on the analogy of the Corpus Juris Canonici. |
 | | Denis Godefroy (1549–1622, Latin "Dionysius Gothofredus") was a member of a noble French family of jurists, a Calvinist, a councillor of Geneva, and a professor of law at Heidelberg, whose excellent commentary on the Corpus Juris Civilis (originally published Geneva, 1583) was standard in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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