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pan·dect (pandekt′)

noun

  1. a complete body of laws; legal code
  2. Now Rare a complete or comprehensive digest

Etymology: Fr pandecte < LL Pandectae, the Pandects < L, pl. of pandectes, an all-inclusive book < Gr pandektēs, lit., all-receiving < pan, all (see pan-) + dechesthai, to contain, receive < IE *de-: see decent

pandect Idioms

the Pandects

a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. ; the Digest

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