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corpus juris
[ kawr-puhs joor-is ]
noun
- a compilation of law, or the collected law of a nation, state, etc.
corpus juris
/ ˈdʒʊərɪs /
noun
- a body of law, esp the laws of a nation or state
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Origin of corpus juris1
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Origin of corpus juris1
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In the corpus juris civilis there are two passages which deserve especial attention.
Arranged in five books, it forms the second part of the Corpus juris canonici.
But with Justinian, who codified the laws in his Corpus juris, the Hellenizing of the legal language also began.
The classifications of crimes which are231 contained even in the Corpus Juris of Justinian are remarkably capricious.
Ostensibly it is the corpus juris of the Jews from about the first century before the Christian era to about the fourth after it.
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