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PANDECTS (See also:Lat. pandecta, adapted from Gr. vrai ,crr)s, all-containing) , a name given to a compendium or See also:digest of See also:Roman See also:law compiled by See also:order of the See also:emperor Justinian in the 6th See also:century (A.D. 530—533). The pandects were divided into fifty books, each See also:book containing several titles, divided into See also:laws, and the laws into several parts or paragraphs. The number of jurists from whose See also:works extracts were made is See also:thirty-nine, but the writings of See also:Ulpian and See also:Paulus make up quite See also:half the See also:work. The work was declared to be the See also:sole source of non-See also:statute law: commentaries on the compilation were forbidden, or even the citing of the See also:original works of the jurists for the explaining of ambiguities in the See also:text. See JUSTINIAN; and ROMAN LAW.

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