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Definition of Pandects
1. pandect [n] - See also: pandect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandects
Literary usage of Pandects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1881)
"The Code, the pandects, and the Institutes, were declared to be the legitimate
system of ... Is the word pandects Greek or Latin—masculine or feminine? ..."
2. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"As distinguished from the books on the pandects, which were concerned with the '
received' private law of foreign origin, the books on German Private Law ..."
3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"structure on the arrangement of his Code and pandects, before I examine the
opinions concerning the nature of Equity to which I alluded in my last discourse ..."
4. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"Is the word pandects Greek or Latin — masculine or feminine? ... The Greek index
to the pandects enumerates thirty-nine, and forty are produced by the ..."
5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"(c) * His pandects. — The Digest, or pandects, is a vast * 539 abridgment, in
fifty books, of the decisions of praetors, and the writings and opinions of ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1854)
"CODE, pandects, NOVELS, AND INSTITUTES, OF JUSTINIAN. ... In their references to
the Code, the pandects, and the Institutes, they mention the number, ..."
7. Studies in Roman Law, with Comparative Views of the Laws of France, England by Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie (1865)
"It was published, under the title of Digest or pandects, on the 16th December
533, and declared to have the force of law from the 30th of that month. ..."
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