Justinian Code
Americannoun
noun
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The Justinian Code decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The panel created a single, uniform code known as the Justinian Code.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Eliot has always operated on the principle that the critic should erect his personal tastes into law, and in this book he lays down a kind of Justinian Code of poetic greatness.
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The Justinian Code of the Byzantine Empire, for example, denied church sanctuary primarily to criminals convicted of high treason or sacrilege.
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For the Justinian Code see below, § 94, Introduction.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
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