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Corpus Juris Civilis
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 580 Words
Corpus Juris Civilis , most comprehensive code of Roman law...eminent jurist Tribonian. The Corpus Juris was an attempt to systematize Roman law...throughout Europe, and the Corpus Juris Civilis thus became the ultimate model and inspiration...
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Corpus Juris
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law; 216 Words
CORPUS JURIS [ Latin, A body of law. ] A phrase used...collections of law, such as the Corpus Juris Civilis. The name of an American legal encyclopedia...recent edition of which is known as Corpus Juris Secundum (C.J.S. ® ).
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Roman Law
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Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World; ; 700+ Words
...x2013; 450 b.c.e.) to the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of the Civil Law) of...specifically to refer to the Corpus Juris Civilis, the compilation that...original commentaries on the Corpus Juris Civilis and the Glossa ordinaria. They...
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civil law
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 700+ Words
...romanorum ) in their affairs with one another. The great Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian, compiled in the 6th cent. AD and...Extensive glosses and commentaries on the Corpus Juris Civilis and on other classical texts were produced. Through...
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Agnus Mopus, or Writing Out the Body of Our Work.(Prose on Poetry)(Essay)
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The Antioch Review; Jan 1, 2009; ; 700+ Words
...work as writers--our corpus, we say. The body of...of particles. Corpus Juris: the collected law of a nation state. Corpus Juris Canonici: the body of...of canon law. Corpus Juris Civilis: the body of ancient...
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Civil Law
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American Eras; 700+ Words
...The foundations of civil law can be found in the Corpus Juris Civilis , the code of Justinian. In the sixth century Justinian...century Catholic legal scholars revived the Corpus Juris Civilis and made it the fundamental basis of law in continental...
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Theodosian Code
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law; 423 Words
...Roman jurisprudence compiled and codified in the Corpus Juris Civilis in a.d. 528 – 534 under the direction...Justinian. Until the twelfth century, when the Corpus Juris Civilis became known in the West, the Theodosian Code was...
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Codification
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law; 700+ Words
...of its laws. The Code of Justinian, known as the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Laws), became the legal authority...digest of legal essays for guidance. The Corpus Juris Civilis was a landmark in legal history, and it served as...
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Torture
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Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World; ; 700+ Words
...like medieval Roman law in general, from the materials of Emperor Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis (Corpus of Civil Law; also spelled Corpus Iuris Civilis), which had originated in the sixth century. In canon law, ordeals were expressly...
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Justinian I
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law; 700+ Words
...Empire. Together the Code, Digest, Institutes, and Novels came to be known as the Corpus juris civilis ("the corpus of civil law"). The Corpus juris not only preserved Roman law for later generations but, after the twelfth century when...
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The universities of the Renaissance and Reformation*.(The 2003 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture)
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Renaissance Quarterly; Mar 22, 2004; ; 700+ Words
...of Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna for medicine. Professors of law made detailed examination of the Corpus juris civilis and Corpus juris canonici. Theologians lectured on Peter Lombard's Sententiarum libri quattuor and the Bible. And once...
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Roman law
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 700+ Words
...disadvantage of the system, however, was that the vast corpus of legal matter included much that was confused, contradictory...the culminating work of Roman legal scholarship, the Corpus Juris Civilis (completed 535) under the direction of Tribonian...
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Leo III
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Encyclopedia of World Biography; 700+ Words
...important of these is his Eklog á . Issued in 726, this is a digest of essentials from Justinian I's old Corpus juris civilis, but now in Greek, the empire's functional language. This code demonstrated the continuing evolution of Roman...
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ASK THE GLOBE
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The Boston Globe; Feb 21, 1991; 236 Words
...Roman laws drawn up at the command of Justinian I, a 6th century ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire. Known as the Corpus Juris Civilis, or Body of Civil Law, the collection is recognized as one of the great Roman contributions to civilization.
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Herennius Modestinus
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 360 Words
...student of Ulpian. Under the Roman Empire he was one of the five jurists, including Papinian , whose views were considered decisive in resolving legal controversies. Extensive sections of his work are preserved in the Corpus Juris Civilis.
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Jean Domat
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 388 Words
...theology. It is believed to be the earliest work on the subject to depart from the arrangement of the 6th-century Corpus Juris Civilis. His name is also spelled Daumat. Bibliography: See H. F. Jolowicz, Roman Foundations of Modern Law (1957...
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Paulus
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; 393 Words
...trenchant expression of his own views. Paulus was held in great respect; almost one sixth of the Digest of the Corpus Juris Civilis consists of his work, and he was one of the five jurists whose opinions were made authoritative in 426 by a constitution...
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Gay Studies
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New Dictionary of the History of Ideas; ; 700+ Words
...Western thought, prompting the emperor Justinian, in 533 c.e., to make homosexuality a capital offense in his Corpus juris civilis (Body of civil law), thus foreshadowing the Christian animus toward homosexuality throughout Anglo-Saxon...
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Napoleonic Code
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law; 504 Words
...on the Germanic law that had been in effect in northern France. The code draws upon the Institutes of the Roman Corpus Juris Civilis for its categories of the civil law: property rights, such as licenses; the acquisition of property, such as...
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Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto God that which is God's.(relationship between law, religion, and morality)
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Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; Mar 22, 2008; ; 700+ Words
...in the West think and have always thought that the historical continuity of the law going back to Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis is linked to its supremacy over religious and governmental institutions. (3) Ancient Roman law applied to government...
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