Basilika

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Basilika is a comprehensive 9th-century Byzantine legal code that systematically revised and expanded Justinian’s laws into Greek.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine legal code
law code
medieval legal text
alsoKnownAs Basilics NERFINISHED
Basilika ton nomon NERFINISHED
appliesToJurisdiction Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
basedOn Justinianic legislation NERFINISHED
chronology compiled between late 9th and early 10th centuries
compiler Byzantine jurists
compiles Justinianic Novels NERFINISHED
earlier Byzantine legal materials
imperial constitutions
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Roman-Byzantine law NERFINISHED
jurisprudence
follows Corpus Juris Civilis NERFINISHED
genre canon law compilation
civil law code
hasCommentary scholia by later Byzantine jurists
hasPart 60 books
historicalPeriod Middle Byzantine period NERFINISHED
inception 9th century
influenced later Byzantine legal practice
post-Byzantine Orthodox legal traditions
influencedBy Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis NERFINISHED
Roman law NERFINISHED
language Greek
legalStatus official codification of law in the Byzantine Empire
legalSystem Byzantine law NERFINISHED
mainSubject civil law
criminal law
ecclesiastical law
procedural law
notableFeature Greek reworking of Latin Roman law sources
systematic organization of Justinianic material
patron Basil I NERFINISHED
Leo VI the Wise NERFINISHED
preservedIn medieval Greek manuscripts
replaced direct use of Latin Corpus Juris Civilis in Byzantine courts
significantEvent systematic revision of Justinian’s laws
translation of Roman law into Greek
startTime reign of Basil I
titleLanguage Greek
use authoritative legal reference in the Byzantine Empire

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Byzantine law codifiedIn Basilika
Leo VI the Wise notableWork Basilika
Dušan's Code influencedBy Basilika