pan·dect

(păn′dĕkt′)

1. Pandects A digest of Roman civil law, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century ad and part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. Also called Digest.

2. The definitive statement of a legal rule.

[Latin pandectēs, encyclopedia, from Greek pandektēs, all-receiving : pan-, pan- + dektēs, receiver (from dekhesthai, to receive, accept; see dek- in Indo-European roots).]

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pandect, pandects

a legal code or complete body or system of laws.

See also: Law

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They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.

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the Pandects (34) and his lifelong friendship with Sozzini prove.

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(7) Boccaccio openly quotes the Digest in his Genealogia, recalling that in the book, which he refers to as Pandecta pisana (the oldest manuscript of the Pandects, during that period held in Pisa),

Lisabetta and Lorenzo's Tomb (on Decameron IV,5)

1726) (translated in PERCIVAL GANE, THE SELECTIVE VOET: BEING THE COMMENTARY ON THE PANDECTS, PARIS EDITION OF 1829 (1955)).

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"It is organized in the European genre of Pandekten (Pandects) rather than in traditional Chinese statutory format ...

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Some confusion results as Marx, only a few years away from his Berlin studies of the pandects and jurisprudence, attempts to solve the problem.

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Back in France in 1604 Barclay dedicated another work, the Pandects, to James.

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Digests or Pandects, compiled the writings of the great Roman jurists

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(49.) 5 JOHANNES VOLT, THE SELECTIVE VOLT BEING THE COMMENTARY ON THE PANDECTS 79 (Percival Gane trans., 1956) (1829).

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