Corpus Juris Definition

Corpus Juris Sentence Examples

• The Corpus Juris of Justinian continued to be, with naturally a few additions in the ordinances of succeeding emperors, the chief law-book of the Roman world till the time of the Macedonian dynasty when, towards the end of the 9th century, a new system was prepared and issued by those sovereigns, which we know as the Basilica.

• In the western provinces, which had been wholly severed from the empire before the publication of the Basilica, the law as settled by Justinian held its ground; but copies of the Corpus Juris were extremely rare, nor did the study of it revive until the end of the 1 ith century.

• His father, proud of his son's steady application and success, sent him the costly present of a Corpus Juris.

• This is the division adopted in all the official collections of the Corpus juris.

• This first official code was the basis of the second part of the Corpus juris canonici.