Digest (Roman law)
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The Digest (Latin: Digesta), also known as the Pandects (Pandectae; Greek: Πανδέκται, Pandéktai, 'All-Containing'), was a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 530–533 AD. It is divided into 50 books.
Quotes
[edit]- Domus tutissimum cuique refugium atque receptaculum.
- Every man's house is his castle.
- Dig. lib. 2, tit. 4, 18
- Cited in Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 582
- See also: Castle doctrine
