Corpus Juris Civilis

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Corpus Juris Civilis is the monumental codification of Roman law ordered by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century, which became a foundational source for many later European legal systems.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine legal text
Roman law codification
legal code
alsoKnownAs Body of Civil Law
Corpus Iuris Civilis
appliesTo citizens of the Byzantine Empire
commissionedBy Justinian I
compiledBy Dorotheus
Theophilus
Tribonian
contains imperial constitutions
juristic writings
legal principles
date 6th century
endDate 534
hasPart first Codex (529)
revised Codex (534)
historicalPeriod Late Antiquity
impact foundation of modern civil law systems
influenced Canon law
German Civil Code
Napoleonic Code
civil law tradition
continental European legal systems
jurisdiction Byzantine Empire
language Latin
legalDomain private law
procedural law
public law
legalStatus official codification of Roman law
legalSystem Roman law
orderedBy Justinian I
part Codex Justinianus
Digest
Institutes
Novellae Constitutiones
Pandects
placeOfOrigin Constantinople
linked to: Istanbul
precededBy Theodosian Code
purpose codification of Roman law
systematization of imperial constitutions
revival 12th century reception in Western Europe
startDate 528
studiedAt University of Bologna
subject Roman private law doctrines
imperial legislation
legal education in the Byzantine Empire

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