History glossary
Digest
the part of Justinian's legal compilation that arranged extracts from classical Roman jurists.
- Category
- Law
- Region
- Byzantine Empire
- Date range
- 533
What it means
The Digest, also known as the Pandects, gathered selected writings of leading Roman jurists and organised them into an authoritative legal collection. It preserved a vast body of Roman legal reasoning that later influenced civil law traditions.
