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  Pandects - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
pandektes, all-containing) is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century (A.D. The pandects were divided into fifty books, each book containing several titles, divided into laws, and the laws into several parts or paragraphs.
The number of jurists from whose works extracts were made is thirty-nine, but the writings of Ulpian and Paulus make up quite half the work.
Pandects, 1911 Britannica, Roman law, Byzantine Empire, Justinian Dynasty and Roman era books.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Pandects   (177 words)

  
 CHAPTER - IDEA OF THE ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE
But the jurisprudence of the Pandects is circumscribed within a period of a hundred years, from the perpetual edict to the death of Severus Alexander: the civilians who lived under the first Caesars are seldom permitted to speak, and only three names can be attributed to the age of the republic.
Even the Pandects themselves have escaped with difficulty and danger from the common shipwreck, and criticism has pronounced that all the editions and manuscripts of the West are derived from one original.
The origin, validity, and duties of the holy institution were regulated by the tradition of the synagogue, the precepts of the gospel, and the canons of general or provincial synods; f787 and the conscience of the Christians was awed by the decrees and censures of their ecclesiastical rulers.
www.godrules.net /library/gibbon/82gibbon_d6.htm   (9965 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pandects
Hastily compiled by Tribonian and his associates (in a scant three years) from the writings of thirty-nine eminent jurisconsults, the Pandects leave much to be desired in arrangement and abound in repetitions and antinomies.
The rediscovery of the Pisan, or Florentine, Manuscript of the Pandects has been regarded as the critical secular event for modern civilization by those who associate the revival of Roman law with the legend of Amalfi.
Pothier accepts it and relates the circumstances in which the "complete copy of the Pandects emerged from the shadows of the tomb as by a miracle of Divine Providence".
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11439a.htm   (1116 words)

  
 No Chick Trix Forum - WOTD: 6-29-04
Obedience to the pandects of a civilized society is one mark of a good citizen.
The original pandect was the Pandectae, a massive fifty-volume digest of Roman civil law that was created under the emperor Justinian in the 6th century.
When the word "pandect" first cropped up in English in the mid-16th century, it referred to the complete code of laws of a particular country or system.
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 History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire (1845) By Edward Gibbon Esq.-Volume 5 Chapter 25- from Nalanda ...
If they had obeyed his commands in ten years, Justinian would have been satisfied with their diligence; and the rapid composition of the Digest of Pandects, [75] in three years, will deserve praise or censure, according to the merit of the execution.
The Greek index to the Pandects enumerates thirty-nine, and forty are produced by the indefatigable Fabricius, (Bibliot.
Many quotations in the Pandects are derived from books which Tribonian never saw; and in the long period from the viith to the xiiith century of Rome, the apparent reading of the moderns successively depends on the knowledge and veracity of their predecessors.]
www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/rome/volume5.chapter25.html   (3982 words)

  
 Ancient History Sourcebook: Edward Gibbon: The Idea of Roman Jurisprudence
The origin, validity, and duties of the holy institution were regulated by the tradition of the synagogue, the precepts of the gospel, and the canons of general or provincial synods; and the conscience of the Christians was awed by the decrees and censures of their ecclesiastical rulers.
The penal statutes form a very small proportion of the sixty-two books of the Code and Pandects; and in all judicial proceedings, the life or death of a citizen is determined with less caution or delay than the most ordinary question of covenant or inheritance.
This singular distinction, though something may be allowed for the urgent necessity of defending the peace of society, is derived from the nature of criminal and civil jurisprudence.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/gibbon-chap44.html   (17290 words)

  
 The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (chapter44)
The antinomies, or opposite laws of the Code and Pandects, are sometimes the cause, and often the excuse, of the glorious uncertainty of the civil law, which so often affords what Montaigne calls “Questions pour l’Ami.” See a fine passage of Franciscus Balduinus in Justinian, (l.
The discovery of the Pandects at Amalphi (A. D 1137) is first noticed (in 1501) by Ludovicus Bologninus, (Brenckman, l.
If candor will acquit the emperor himself, and transfer the corruption to his wife and favorites, the suspicion of so foul a vice must still degrade the majesty of his laws; and the advocates of Justinian may acknowledge, that such levity, whatsoever be the motive, is unworthy of a legislator and a man.
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter44.html   (18678 words)

  
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Selections from the works of thirty-nine of the ablest lawyers, scattered over two thousand separate treatises, were collected in one volume; and care was taken to inform posterity that three millions of lines were abridged and reduced in these extracts to the modest number of one hundred and fifty thousand.
The Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes were declared to be the only legitimate authority, and alone were admitted to the tribunals or taught in the schools.
The Code, Pandects, Institutes, and Novels are of course the original authority, with the long-lost Institutes of Gaius.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/4/8/10484/10484-8.txt   (20309 words)

  
 Gibbons-JustinianCode
In their references to the Code, the Pandects, and the Institutes, they mention the number, not of the book, but only of the law; and content themselves with reciting the first words of the title to which it belongs; and of these titles there are more than a thousand.
The discretion of the praetor was now governed by the lessons of his teachers; the judges were enjoined to obey the comment as well as the text of the law; and the use of codicils was a memorable innovation, which Augustus ratified by the advice of the civilians.
Tribonian adored the virtues of his gracious of his gracious master; the earth was unworthy of such a prince; and he affected a pious fear, that Justinian, like Elijah or Romulus, would be snatched into the air, and translated alive to the mansions of celestial glory.
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 pandects - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Pandects : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
Pandects : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
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 Roman Law Part II
Upon the completion of the Pandects, Justinian, always intelligently interested in legal education, ordered an abridgment of the Digest for the purposes of instruction; these are the Institutes of Justinian.
The publication of a photographic reproduction of the Florentine Pandects was begun at Rome in 1902, and seven of the ten parts are already at hand.
In what had been the Western Empire, Justinian no longer held sway at the date of the promulgation of his laws; the subject race were, however, permitted by their barbarian conquerors to retain the pre-Justinian law as their personal law.
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 FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
The name sometimes given to the Pandects of Justinian; it is so called because this compilation is reduced to order, quasi digestiae.
It was carried to the emperor, Clothaire II., and proved to be the Pandects of Justinian.
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 Justinian Presenting the Pandects to Trebonianus by RAFFAELLO Sanzio
The Pandects were important documents of Roman Civil Law that had been brought into accordance with Canon (Church) Law.
This unusual subject was to be shown on one side of the window on this wall, with Pope Gregory on the other side.
The fresco is thought to be largely the work of assistants and was probably carried out towards the end of 1511.
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 History of Penn Law - Medallions and Inscriptions
Following the footsteps of his father and grandfather, he was appointed judge of the Presidential Court of Orleans in 1720 and held this position for fifty-two years.
Pothier’s Digest of Pandects of Justinian (Pandectae Justinianae in novum ordinem digestae), written and edited between 1748 and 1752, is a classic in the study of Roman law.
In addition to Pandects, Pothier’s A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View, written in 1761, is a classic on civil law and was so highly regarded in the decades that led up to the French Civil War that it was considered required reading for practitioners, scholars, and law students.
www.law.upenn.edu /about/history/medallions/pothier   (389 words)

  
 Phoenicia's Roman School of Law
Their judicial opinions constitute well over a third of the Pandects (Digest) contained in the great compilation of Roman law commissioned by the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century AD.
He was a subordinate to Papinian when that older jurist was praetorian prefect (chief adviser to the emperor and commander of his bodyguard) under Lucius Septimius Severus (reigned 193-211), and he annotated Papinian's works.
Dorotheus (first half of the 6th century AD), jurist, was one of the principal codifiers of Roman law under the emperor Justinian I. Dorotheus helped to compile the Digest, or Pandects (published in 533), and the second edition of the Codex Constitutionum (published in 534).
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/geoghist/histories/oldcivilization/phoenicia/law/law.html   (604 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Antiochus of Palestine
As they were, naturally, unable to carry many books with them, the Abbot Eustathius asked his friend Antiochus to compile an abridgment of Holy Scripture for their use, and also a short account of the martyrdom of the forty-four monks of St. Sabbas.
In compliance with this request he wrote a work known as "Pandects of Holy Scripture" (in 130 chapters, mistaken by the Latin translator for as many homilies).
The book is of special value for its extracts of works no longer existing; the writer had an interest, then uncommon, in early Christian literature.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/01574a.htm   (354 words)

  
 History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon eBook by BookRags
Yet the Pandects are quoted by Ivo of Chartres, (who died in 1117,) by Theobald, archbishop of Canterbury, and by Vacarius, our first professor, in the year 1140, (Selden ad Fletam, c.
[Footnote 89: The discovery of the Pandects at Amalphi (A. D 1137) is first noticed (in 1501) by Ludovicus Bologninus, (Brenckman, l.
[Footnote 90: Pisa was taken by the Florentines in the year 1406; and in 1411 the Pandects were transported to the capital.
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 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4 by Edward Gibbon
Pandects, are sometimes the cause, and often the excuse, of the
Pandects themselves have escaped with difficulty and danger from
Pandects are quoted by Ivo of Chartres, (who died in 1117,) by
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 The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Chapter 44
The work was accomplished in fourteen months; and the twelve books or tables, which the new decemvirs produced, might be designed to imitate the labors of their Roman predecessors.
The Christian princes were the first who specified the just causes of a private divorce; their institutions, from Constantine to Justinian, appear to fluctuate between the custom of the empire and the wishes of the church,
Religion pronounces an equal censure against the infidelity of the husband; but, as it is not accompanied by the same civil effects, the wife was never permitted to vindicate her wrongs;
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 Best-Free-Soft.com - Bar Codes and More 6.3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This package includes the pole pandect types: 2 / 5, 2 / 5 interleaved, 3 / 9, PostNet, and UPC-A. Bar pandect 2 / 5 is employed to encode numeric figures.
Bar pandect 2 / 5 interleaved lets you encode really high density numeric figures.
Bar pandect 3 / 9 is individual of the most commonly employed pole codes and offers numeric, upper case ASCII, and some punctuation.
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 Tripped on the coast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
i wondered if "seasonal" was defined somewhere deeply imbedded in the Santa Barbara County pandects, but then promptly became enthralled with the lovely isolated white sand shoreline.
A digest of Roman civil law, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century A.D. and part of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
[Latin pandectes, encyclopedia, from Greek pandektes, all-receiving : pan-, + dektes, receiver (from dekhesthai, to receive, accept).] *interleaf (IN-ter-leef) noun; A blank leaf inserted between the regular pages of a book.
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 Roman Water Law: Translated From the Pandects of Justinian. - WARE, EUGENE F.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Roman Water Law: Translated From the Pandects of Justinian.
WARE, EUGENE F. Roman Water Law: Translated From the Pandects of Justinian.
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 Best-Free-Soft.com - EAN Bar Codes 2.5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A special EAN 13 bar pandect with a 5 digit supplemental pandect is employed on books to encode the tome ISBN handful and expense.
Our scalable TrueType and PostScript bar pandect fonts comes in five different light ratios, so you can vary the elevation and wideness of the bars unfettered of each other.
Our bar pandect set includes VBA functions for Excel and Access, Word label templates, plu sour BAREAN.EXE utility, which calculates checksums and automatically formats these bar codes for you.
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Be it henceforward understood that, with the original text of the Institutes and Pandects, the correspondent articles in the Antiquities and Elements of Heineccius are implicitly quoted; and with the xxvii.
first books of the Pandects, the learned and rational Commentaries of Gerard Noodt, (Opera, tom.
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 44
www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/gibbone/rome/volume2/nt440/101.htm   (82 words)

  
 Albert Pike And The Louisiana Civil Code, An Unfinished Epic
Although Pike engaged in law practice at New Orleans for only three seasons, he never lost his fondness for the Louisiana Civil Law system with its Roman Law heritage.
After relocating to Washington, D.C., in 1868, he commenced his magnificent tome comprising "all the maxims of the Roman and French Law, with the comments upon them of the French courts in text writers, and of the Pandects." The task took several years to complete and reflected more than 20 years of meticulous research.
This preparatory effort also produced an extensive monograph of about 300 pages, "Notes on the Civil Code of Louisiana, made by Albert Pike in 1855, at New Orleans" which, unfortunately, is also generally unavailable to the legal profession.
www.srmason-sj.org /council/journal/oct00/easterly.html   (634 words)

  
 Memoirs Of Casanova — Volume 18: Return To Naples by Giacomo Casanova eBook by BookRags
At this the Pope laughed till his sides shook.
Next morning the eccentric cardinal returned me my Pandects, and I immediately returned his funeral oration, with a letter in which I pronounced it a masterpiece of composition, though I laid barely glanced over it in reality.
My brother told me I was wrong, but I did not trouble what he said, not caring to guide myself by his rulings.
www.bookrags.com /ebooks/2968/4.html   (538 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Pandects@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Pandects@ HighBeam Research
Regulations vary from state to state, but federal pandects mandate that a physician cannot partner with a non-licensed medical professional in performing medicine.
Following the death of the twenty-seven-year-old Elihu H. Smith, in 1798, a tribute was paid by the editor of The Farmer's Weekly Museum (Walpole, New Hampshire), with the acknowledgment that Many useful hints, and many elegant extracts were given, or suggested to the Editor by his departed friend
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 Legal Definition of Pandects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Pandects *
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 Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio] Justinian Presenting the Pandects to Trebonianus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Raphael [Raffaello Sanzio] Justinian Presenting the Pandects to Trebonianus
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