Digest

Japanese: Digesta
Digest

…a 50-volume legal code issued by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 533. It is called Digesta in Latin and Pandecten in German. At the command of the emperor, a committee led by Tribonianus compiled excerpts from the works of classical jurists and arranged them by subject for the convenience of legal education and judicial practice. With the exception of a few public law provisions, most of the text is private law. Along with the Codex, it is the core of the Corpus Juris Civilis. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Digesta" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…533年,ビザンティン皇帝ユスティニアヌス1世により発布された全50巻の法典。ラテン語でディゲスタDigesta,ドイツ語ではパンデクテンという。帝の命によりトリボニアヌスTribonianusを中心とする編纂委員会が,法学教育ならびに裁判実務の便宜のために,古典期法学者の著作から抜粋しそれぞれの題目ごとにまとめて配列したもので,若干の公法的規定を除き,大部分は私法的内容であり,勅法彙纂Codexと並びローマ法大全の核心をなす。…

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