Note 175 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
The collection of the Roman Imperial statutes, known as the Justinian Code, was published by order of Justinian in 529. Three years later appeared fifty books, containing the decisions of famous jurists, and this digest received the name of the Pandects. An introduction, to facilitate the study of the Pandects, with four additional books, make up the Institutes; and, lastly, certain new statutes added at the revision of the code made in 534, formed the Novellæ; the whole collection making up the body of the Roman or civil law.