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The digest of Justinian. Vol. 1 /

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, t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Watson, Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1998]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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].
Notas:Contains books 1 - 15 of the Digest.
Originally published 1985 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Copyright © 1985 Univeristy of Pennsylvania Press. Revised English-language edition copyright © 1998 University of Pennsylvania Press.
"This is a corrected edition, minus the Latin text, of the four-volume The Digest of Justinian, latin text edited by Theodore Mommsen with the aid of Paul Krueger, English translation edited by Alan Watson, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1985"--Preface to the paperback edition.
Descripción Física:1 online resource ([lxx], 458 pages)
ISBN:9780812205510
0812205510
1283212412
9781283212410