pandect
noun
- a complete body of laws; legal code
- Now Rare a complete or comprehensive digest
See pandect in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(pănˈdĕktˌ)
noun- A comprehensive digest or complete treatise.
- pandects A complete body of laws; a legal code.
- Pandects A digest of Roman civil law, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century A.D. and part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. Also called Digest.
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