... former Western Roman Empire, which had been lost to invading barbaric tribes in the previous century, the Migration Period. The Corpus Juris Civilis, otherwise known as the Body of Civil Law is the modern name for a collection of works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 535, by order of Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor. It is also referred to as the Code ... Institutes or Institutiones, a student textbook, mainly introducing the Code or the Digest. All three parts, including the textbook were given the force of the law. They were intended to be used together as a sole source of the ...

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