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> as lemmasInstitutes of Justinian Institutes of Justinian (Institutiones Justiniani), an elementary treatise on Roman Law, compiled by order of the Emperor Justinian in 533 a.d., and intended as an introduction to the Pandects. It was based mainly on the Institutes of Gaius (Institutiones Gaii), compiled in the 2nd cent. a.d., long lost, but recovered in 1816. (The Byzantine Greeks explain ἰνστιτοῦτα by εἰσαγωγαί introductions.)< |