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单词 pandect
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Definition of pandect in English:

pandect

noun ˈpandɛktˈpandekt
historical
  • 1A complete body of the laws of a country.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To say Latin ‘Bible’ is to mis-speak because pandects or works with all of the biblical books gathered together in one place were rare.
    • Although other centres such as Lorsch, Micy, and Metz also produced single-volume pandects, it was more usual for individual books or groups of books of the Bible to be copied.
    • Its chief products included one-volume bibles (pandects) specifically made for export to other centres, thus disseminating the elegant Tours script and decorated initials.
    • These new pandects were authorized and signed by eleven peers, twenty-five general officers, and fifty superior officers.
    • They indifferently accepted the German Pandect law as the common law of Germany.
    1. 1.1 A compendium in 50 books of the Roman civil law made by order of Justinian in the 6th century.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet even in England the principles of the Code and the Pandects made silent conquests.
      • This year of 1147 is one to be remembered, because from that time forward the Pandects have been open to the writers and the jurists of the world.

Derivatives

  • pandectist

  • noun
    historical
    • A strong argument may also be made that the pandectist jurisprudence of Continental Europe presents an example of the use of doctrinal expositions as primary sources of law.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The German civil code was later; the pandectists, including Savigny, had had another century to refine their ideas.
      • One researcher presented a reconstruction of the Roman political system orientated around the premises of the contemporary pandectist system.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French pandecte, from Latin pandecta, from Greek pandektēs 'all-receiver', from pan 'all' + dektēs (from dekhesthai 'receive').

 
 

Definition of pandect in US English:

pandect

nounˈpandekt
historical
  • 1A complete body of the laws of a country.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They indifferently accepted the German Pandect law as the common law of Germany.
    • To say Latin ‘Bible’ is to mis-speak because pandects or works with all of the biblical books gathered together in one place were rare.
    • Although other centres such as Lorsch, Micy, and Metz also produced single-volume pandects, it was more usual for individual books or groups of books of the Bible to be copied.
    • These new pandects were authorized and signed by eleven peers, twenty-five general officers, and fifty superior officers.
    • Its chief products included one-volume bibles (pandects) specifically made for export to other centres, thus disseminating the elegant Tours script and decorated initials.
    1. 1.1usually the Pandects A compendium in 50 books of the Roman civil law made by order of Justinian in the 6th century.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet even in England the principles of the Code and the Pandects made silent conquests.
      • This year of 1147 is one to be remembered, because from that time forward the Pandects have been open to the writers and the jurists of the world.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French pandecte, from Latin pandecta, from Greek pandektēs ‘all-receiver’, from pan ‘all’ + dektēs (from dekhesthai ‘receive’).

 
 
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