Justinianistn.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 5 I could neuer yet learne that Galen, or Iustinian, or any good Galenist, or Iustinianist did greatly lend his eare, or bend his mind vnto any such trifles.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes To Rdr. sig. B2^v Sufficeth it therefore these Latin Iustinianists, that those marginall notes especially proper to their studies, be left in Latin.

1594 W. Clerke Triall of Bastardie ii. 8 What Iustinian defined, and vnto what degree, (his secular computation) I leaue to Iustinianistes to define.

1610 J. Selden Duello xi. 44 The time or instance (as the Iustinianists call it) of the Combat is an artificiall day from sun-rising (when the listes are to bee entered) vnto sunne-set.

1611 H. Swinburne Treat. Test. & Last Wills (rev. ed.) To Rdr. sig. B This treatise..may in some sort bee profitable to those Iustinianists or yong students of the Ciuil law, who do intend to bestowe the fruit of their studie in the practise thereof.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Students of the Civil Law are called Justinianists.

1728 Some Acct. Author (note) in Swinburne's Treat. Test. & Last Wills (ed. 5) They are called Justinianists from the Emperor Justinian, who employed ten Lawyers..to collect the best and most useful Constitutions of all the Emperors from Adrian to his Time.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 350/2 Justinianist, a civilian; one who studies the civil law.

1973 J. D. M. Derrett Henry Swinburne 7 Swinburne adopted an intermediate path,..writing his text in simple English and his notes..in Latin for the ‘Justinianists’, whose course of study he hoped to shorten.

2003 P. Stein in M. Ascheri et al. Ins Wasser Geworfen und Ozeane Durchquert 983 The quotations in the marginal notes, however, were in the original Latin,..so that the work would be profitable also to young ‘Justinianists’.