Institutes

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Institutes is a foundational textbook of Roman law within Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis, designed to systematically introduce and explain the principles of civil law.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman law textbook
didactic legal work
legal textbook
part of Corpus Juris Civilis
author Dorotheus
Theophilus
Tribonian
basedOn Institutes of Gaius
commissionedBy Justinian I
compiledUnderDirectionOf Tribonian
contains definitions of legal concepts
summaries of Roman civil law rules
dateOfPublication 533
genre legal treatise
hasAlternativeName Institutiones Iustiniani
The Institutes of Justinian
hasCanonicalStatus authoritative source of Roman law under Justinian
hasTitle Institutiones
historicalPeriod Byzantine Empire
influenced civil law tradition
continental European legal systems
medieval civil law
influencedBy classical Roman jurists
isComponentOf Justinianic codification
Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis
jurisdiction Roman Empire
language Latin
legalDomain private law
legalFamily civil law
legalStatus had force of law in the Roman Empire
legalSystem Roman law
partOf Corpus Juris Civilis
placeOfPublication Constantinople
promulgatedBy Justinian I
promulgationDate 21 November 533
purpose introductory textbook for law students
systematic exposition of principles of civil law
structure four books
subjectMatter actions
obligations
persons
things
targetAudience beginning law students
teachers of law

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Body of Civil Law
hasPart
Corpus Juris Civilis
part

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