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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRACHYLOGUS (from Gr. (3pax6s, See also:short, and Xhyos, word)  , See also:title applied in the See also:middle of the 16th See also:century to a See also:work containing a systematic exposition of the See also:Roman See also:law, which some writers have assigned to the reign of the See also:emperor Justinian, and others have treated as an apocryphal work of the 16th century . The earliest extant edition of this work was published at See also:Lyons in 1549, under the title of Corpus Legum per modum Institutionum; and the title .See also:Brachylogus totius See also:Juris See also:Civilis appears for the first See also:time in an edition published at Lyons in 1553 . The origin of the work may be referred with See also:great See also:probability to the 12th century . There is See also:internal See also:evidence that it was composed subsequently to the reign of See also:Louis le Debonnaire (778-840), as it contains a Lombard law of that See also:king's, which forbids the testimony of a clerk to be received against a layman . On the other See also:hand its See also:style and reasoning is far See also:superior to that of the law writers of the loth and 11th centuries; while the circumstance that the method of its author has not been in the slightest degree influenced by the school of the See also:Gloss-writers (Glossatores) leads fairly to the conclusion that he wrote before that school became dominant at See also:Bologna . See also:Savigny, who traced the See also:history of the Brachylogus with great care, is disposed to think that it is the work of See also:Irnerius himself (Geschichte See also:des rom . Rechts See also:im Mittelalter) . Its value is chiefly See also:historical, as it furnishes evidence that a knowledge of Justinian's legislation was always maintained in See also:northern See also:Italy . The author of the work has adopted the Institutes of Justinian as the basis of it, and draws largely on the See also:Digest, the See also:Code and the Novels; while certain passages, evidently taken from the Sententiae Receptae of See also:Julius See also:Paulus, imply that the author was also acquainted with the Visigothic code of Roman law compiled by See also:order of See also:Alaric II . An edition by E . Bocking was published at See also:Berlin in 1829, under the title of Corpus Legum sive Brachylogus Juris Civilis . See also H .

Fitting, Uber See also:

die Heimath and das Alter des sogenannten Brachylogus (Berlin, 1880) .

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