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PANDECTS (
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Lat. pandecta, adapted from Gr. vrai ,crr)s, all-containing)  , a name given to a compendium or
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digest of
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Roman
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law compiled by
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order of the
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emperor Justinian in the 6th
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century (A.D . 530—533) . The
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pandects were divided into fifty books, each
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book containing several titles, divided into
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laws, and the laws into several parts or paragraphs . The number of jurists from whose
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works extracts were made is
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thirty-nine, but the writings of
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Ulpian and
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Paulus make up quite
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half the
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work . The work was declared to be the
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sole source of non-
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statute law: commentaries on the compilation were forbidden, or even the citing of the
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original works of the jurists for the explaining of ambiguities in the
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text . See JUSTINIAN; and ROMAN LAW .

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