Justinian code

Justinian Code

n (Law) a compilation of Roman imperial law made by order of Justinian I, forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis

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1.Justinian code - the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil lawjus civile, Roman law, civil lawaddiction - (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"legal code - a code of laws adopted by a state or nation; "a code of laws"novate - replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new onestipulate - make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force