The Digest of Justinian

Authors

Alan Watson, University of Georgia School of LawFollow
Theodor Mommsen
Paul Krueger

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Description

The Digest was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to collect everything of importance from earlier Roman law. Alan Watson's English translation is published here with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages.

Excerpt reproduced with permission of University of Pennsylvania Press

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ISBN

978-0812279450

Publication Date

1985

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Keywords

Roman law

Disciplines

Legal History

Repository Citation

Watson, Alan; Mommsen, Theodor; and Krueger, Paul, "The Digest of Justinian" (1985). Books. 117.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/books/117

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Publisher's Citation

Mommsen, Theodor, Paul Krueger, and Alan Watson. 1985. The Digest of Justinian. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press.