Digest of Justinian

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Roman law codification legal text part of Corpus Juris Civilis

The Digest of Justinian is a 6th-century compilation of Roman legal writings commissioned by Emperor Justinian I that became a foundational text for later civil law traditions.

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Label Occurrences
Digest of Justinian canonical 10
Justinian Digest 2
Justinian’s Digest 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman law codification ⓘ
legal text ⓘ
part of Corpus Juris Civilis ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Digest ⓘ
surface form: Digesta

Digest of Justinian ⓘ
surface form: Pandects
centralTo medieval Roman law revival ⓘ
commissionedBy Justinian I ⓘ
compiler Tribonian ⓘ
componentOf Corpus Juris Civilis ⓘ
surface form: Justinianic Code
contains excerpts from juristic writings ⓘ
opinions of classical Roman jurists ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire ⓘ
dateOfCompilation 6th century ⓘ
AD 530–533 ⓘ
editorialPolicy abridged and harmonized earlier juristic texts ⓘ
field jurisprudence ⓘ
law ⓘ
hasAuthor commissioned by Justinian I ⓘ
hasCanonicalEdition Mommsen–Krüger edition ⓘ
influenced canon law ⓘ
civil law tradition ⓘ
continental European legal systems ⓘ
modern private law doctrines ⓘ
language Latin ⓘ
laterReception basis for ius commune in Europe ⓘ
glossed by medieval jurists ⓘ
legalDomain family law ⓘ
obligations ⓘ
private law ⓘ
procedural law ⓘ
property law ⓘ
legalStatus had force of law in the Byzantine Empire ⓘ
legalSystem Roman law ⓘ
numberOfBooks 50 ⓘ
originalTitle Digest of Justinian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Digesta Iustiniani
partOf Corpus Juris Civilis ⓘ
preservation survives in medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ
promulgatedBy Justinian I ⓘ
promulgationDate AD 533 ⓘ
purpose to provide an authoritative source of Roman law ⓘ
to systematize classical Roman jurisprudence ⓘ
regionOfUse Byzantine Empire ⓘ
surface form: Eastern Roman Empire
relatedWork Codex Justinianus ⓘ
Institutes of Justinian ⓘ
Novellae Constitutiones ⓘ
sourceMaterialFrom classical Roman jurists of 1st–3rd centuries AD ⓘ
structure divided into books, titles, and fragments ⓘ
studiedAt University of Bologna ⓘ

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dorotheus → notableWork → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Commentarius ad Pandectas → mainSubject → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Commentarius ad Pandectas → basedOn → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Institutes of Justinian → relatedWork → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Novellae → relatedTo → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Ulpian → influenced → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Justinian’s Digest
Ulpian → textIncorporatedIn → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Modestinus → workIncorporatedIn → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Justinian's Digest
Novels of Justinian → follows → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Papinian → legalOpinionsUsedIn → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Pandectae → hasAlternativeName → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Digests of Justinian
Codex Hermogenianus → partiallyPreservedIn → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Justinian’s Digest
Gregorian Code → usedAsSourceFor → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Justinian Digest
Gregorian Code → relatedWork → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Justinian Digest
Novellae Justiniani → chronologicallyFollows → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
Digest of Justinian → alsoKnownAs → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pandects
Digest of Justinian → originalTitle → Digest of Justinian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Digesta Iustiniani
Dušan's Code → influencedBy → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Byzantine Ecloga
Comment. ad Pand. → subject → Digest of Justinian ⓘ
this entity surface form: Pandects
Comment. ad Pand. → relatedTo → Digest of Justinian ⓘ