[Modus legendi abbreviaturas]

lastly subjoined, as in this example:
"By what ways or [it is] lost," [chapter] "unique," §
"again" in the use of feuds, i.e., in the rubric: "By
what ways a feud is lost," [chapter] "unique,"
in § "again" in the uses of feuds,
etc. And now sometimes one alleges the collec
tion [the] tenth, thus abbreviating: coll. 10.

10th collection on the uses of feuds

Because this book after 9 collections
of the Authentics was edited. Others can
be taken as examples: "in the law of the feud of the mar
quess, the duke, and the count," i.e., "On the feud of the mar
chioness, the duchy, and the county," "On the investiture in the hand
when made," "On the military vassal who is con
tumacious," i.e., "On the military vassal who is con
tumacious." "On how the vassal ought to swear
fidelity to the lord," i.e., "On how the vassal ought to swear
fidelity to the lord." And so of all
others, extending and abbreviating the rubrics.
With the subjection, however, of the chapter and the section in which is con
tained the authority or the text alleged.

That is enough about the book of Feuds.

How many principal books of Institutions

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The fourth principal book is called
Instituta or Institutions in the
plural number. And it is divided into 4
partial books, which are intro
ductory into other legal books.
Primarily they served also the canons
inasmuch as they declare the significations
of terms used in the law, which are much
more useful to beginners,
as a door into a house for those
attempting to enter into the law. Therefore, it is counsel
led to all, as if to newly-born
children, and to adults,
desiring the milk of the law,
through the dogmas of the Institutions
to take their primary nourishment,
so that, informed by the preamble doctrine,
they may deserve to adhere more securely to the
sanction of justice. Which, by the most Christian Emperor Justinian,
regularly derived, by the authority of all
emperors, it commands, retards,
forbids, punishes, and permits. Let no
one, therefore, be so presumptuous
that, without the doctrines of the Institutions, he would
attempt to descend to the sublimi
ties of the laws, and especially civil [laws].
All those who strive to fly before they
take up their wings fall irremediably.
This book was indeed
edition Below

by the mandate of the Emperor Justinian,
who also composed the Digest.
Edited after the Digest and after the first
compilation of the Code. Before, however,
the compilation of the second Code, which we now have,
through that great man of his,
Tribonian, the quaestor of his Sacred
Palace, with Theophilus and
Dorotheus, illustrious men,
as it is said in the beginning of the Institutions. And these
partial books are subdivided fur
ther into titles. And these into sections, not
into laws nor into chapters. And sections, some
times when they are long, in [the] v [paragraph sign]. In alle
gations, however, of this book, such a mode
is observed that first the book is named,
afterward the rubric, then the section,
if [it is] v. For example: Institutes
"On justice and law," § 1. That is, in the book
of Institutions, under the rubric "On justice
and law," in § first of that
rubric. Another: Institute "On the law
of nature, of peoples, and civil," § "But
as often." That is, in the Institutes "On the law