Body of Civil Law

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The Body of Civil Law is the monumental 6th-century codification of Roman law ordered by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, which became a foundational source for later European legal systems.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine law code
Roman law codification
legal code
alsoKnownAs Corpus Juris Civilis
Codex Justinianus
surface form: Justinian Code
appliesToJurisdiction Byzantine Empire
surface form: Eastern Roman Empire
commissionedBy Justinian I
compilationOf Corpus Juris Civilis
surface form: Justinianic legislation

Roman imperial constitutions
classical Roman juristic writings
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire
dateOfCreation 6th century
draftedBy Dorotheus
Theophilus
Tribonian
endTime 534
hasInfluenced university legal education in medieval Europe
hasPart Codex Justinianus
Digest
Institutes
Novellae
influenced German Civil Code
Napoleonic Code
surface form: Latin American civil codes

Napoleonic Code
canon law
civil law tradition
continental European legal systems
modern private law in Europe
jurisdiction Byzantine Empire
language Latin
legalStatus official codification of Roman law
legalSystem Roman law
orderedBy Justinian I
part Codex Justinianus
Digest
Institutes
Novellae
Corpus Juris Civilis
surface form: Pandects
placeOfCompilation Istanbul
surface form: Constantinople
startTime 528
studiedAt University of Bologna
subjectMatter administrative law
criminal law
ecclesiastical law
private law
procedural law
public law
usedBy glossators
post‑glossators

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Corpus Juris Civilis alsoKnownAs Body of Civil Law