When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code , which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes , an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest , by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law.
Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson.
Links to the three other volumes in the set: Volume 2 [Books 16-29]Volume 3 [Books 30-40]Volume 4 [Books 41-50]

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Strangers Nowhere in the World The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

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Edited by Alan Watson

Edward Peters

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 2), Philadelphia, 2011

Rev. English language ed, Philadelphia, ©1998

United States, United States of America

Philadelphia, Penn, 1998

Philadelphia, Pa, 1998

Philadelphia, 2009

Revised, PS, 2009

2, 20110625

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Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright 4
CONTENTS 6
Preface to the Paperback Edition 12
PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION 14
GLOSSARY 18
HEADINGS / TITLES 32
THE COMPOSITION OF THE DIGEST 34
THE WHOLE BODY OF LAW 38
THE CONFIRMATION OF THE DIGEST 44
THE ANCIENT WRITERS AND THE BOOKS PRODUCED BY THEM FROM WHICH THE PRESENT CORPUS OF THE DIGEST OR ENCYCLOPAEDIA IS DERIVED 64
BOOK ONE JUSTICE AND LAW 72
BOOK TWO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 111
BOOK THREE APPLICATIONS TO THE MAGISTRATE 150
BOOK FOUR RESTITUTIONES IN INTEGRUM 183
BOOK FIVE ACTIONS: WHERE A MAN SHOULD SUE AND BE SUED 235
BOOK SIX VINDICATIO OF PROPERTY 272
BOOK EIGHT SERVITUDES 321
BOOK TEN THE ACTION FOR REGULATING BOUNDARIES 377
BOOK THIRTEEN THE CONDICTIO FOR THEFT 462
BOOK FOURTEEN THE ACTION AGAINST THE SHIPOWNER 1 486
BOOK FIFTEEN THE PECULIUM 507
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9780812205510,Related ISBN:9780812220339,Language:English,OCLC:759158180
When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes, an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law.Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson.

When Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the Code , which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the Institutes , an elementary student's textbook, and the Digest , by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law.
Commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson.
Links to the three other volumes in the set: Volume 2 [Books 16-29]Volume 3 [Books 30-40]Volume 4 [Books 41-50]

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