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Corpus juris civilis · 1580

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1 On Justice and Law.
Codex Civil Law compilation by Justinian On the Most Holy Trinity and the Catholic Faith, because religion is there, which is the more important part of justice.
Extra Decretals of Gregory IX On the Most Holy Trinity and the Catholic Faith, ch. 1, 2, 3, 4. Distinction division in Gratian's Decretum 6.
Institutes Justinian's legal textbook On Justice and Law.
2 On the Origin of Law and all Magistrates. To this part belong the two prior books of the Codex.
Codex On condensing the old law.
Distinction 7, throughout.
Institutes On natural law, the law of nations, and
civil law, §. "and not inelegantly." And in others ibid.
3 On Laws, Senate Consults, and Long Custom.
Codex On laws and imperial constitutions, on Senate Consults, what constitutes long custom.
Extra On custom.
Distinction 11 and 12, where it concerns custom.
Institutes On natural law, the law of nations, and civil law, throughout the title.
4 On Imperial Constitutions.
Codex On laws and imperial constitutions.
On imperial mandates.
Extra On constitutions, on rescripts, both in the Decretals and in the Sixth [Book of Decretals].
Distinction 10.
In the Novellae New Constitutions of Justinian on imperial mandates, collation group of Novellae 3.
And in the Novellae on new constitutions having been made, etc.
Institutes On natural law, the law of nations, and civil law, §. "but also that."