The Digest of Justinian, Volume 1, Volume 1

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Alan Watson
University of Pennsylvania Press, Jun 25, 2011 - History - 768 pages

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]

 

Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Glossary
HeadingsTitles
The Composition of the Digest
The Whole Body of Law
The Confirmation of the Digest
The Ancient Writers
BOOK FIVE
164
BOOK SIX
201
BOOK SEVEN
216
BOOK EIGHT
250
BOOK NINE
276
BOOK TEN
306
BOOK ELEVEN
336
BOOK TWELVE
357

BOOK ONE
1
BOOK TWO
40
BOOK THREE
79
BOOK FOUR
112
BOOK THIRTEEN
391
BOOK FOURTEEN
415
BOOK FIFTEEN
436
Copyright

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About the author (2011)

Alan Watson, Earnest P. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, is the author of many books in legal history, including Rome of the Twelve Tables; Roman Slave Law; and Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity, the last published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Digest of Justinian, Volume 1, Volume 1
Book collections on Project MUSE
Volume 1 of The Digest of Justinian
The Digest of Justinian, Volume 1
EditorAlan Watson
Editionrevised
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
ISBN0812205510, 9780812205510
Length768 pages
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History / Ancient / Rome
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