Crossword clues for pandect
pandect
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pandect \Pan"dect\, n. [L. pandecta, pandectes, Gr. ? all-receiving, all-containing; pa^s, pa^n, all + ? to receive: cf. F. pandectes, pl.]
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A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book.
--Donne. pl. The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.
--Kent.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic. 2 A comprehensive collection of codes or laws.
Usage examples of "pandect".
The Pope smiled at this reply, and I knelt down and begged him to permit me to present the volume of Pandects to the Vatican Library.
By the Bans and the Pandect, by word and by deed, I swear to harm and to hinder you, to break and to kill you.
By authority of the Exordium of the Imperial Code, I now invoke the Master Dominion Pandect for Martial Crisis.
He had failed and so there was nothing to say, for in the pandect of the Apaches there is no justification for failure.
The ponderous volumes of the Codes and Pandects would furnish ample materials for a minute inquiry into the system of provincial government, as in the space of six centuries it was approved by the wisdom of the Roman statesmen and lawyers.
Next morning the eccentric cardinal returned me my Pandects, and I immediately returned his funeral oration, with a letter in which I pronounced it a masterpiece of composition, though I laid barely glanced over it in reality.
Thus many learned lawyers contributed to the Pandects, many physicians to the Tegni, and it was by this means that Avicenna edited his Canon, and Pliny his great work on Natural History, and Ptolemy the Almagest.
The Roman law, as found in the Institutes, Pandects, and Novellae of Justinian, or the Corpus Legis Civilis, is the basis of the law and jurisprudence of all Christendom.
I say, is there anything in the Pandects or the Justinian Code relating to the proper legal procedure against diabolic possession or spiritism?
The translation for which Maser Djawah is best known is that of the Pandects of Haroun, a physician of Alexandria.
He was a distinguished Greek scholar, and is believed on the authority of Odofredus to have translated into Latin, soon after the Pandects were brought to Bologna, the various Greek fragments which occur in them, with the exception of those in the 27th book, the translation of which has been attributed to Modestinus.
He worshiped the great Emperor, and read every scrap he could find on him, not excepting the Pandects and the Digest.
In them I read unthinkable calculations, formulas of interwoven universes, arithmetical progressions of armies of stars, pandects of the motions of the suns.
The changes and interpolations of Tribonian and his colleagues are excused by the pretence of uniformity: but their cares have been insufficient, and the antinomies, or contradictions of the Code and Pandects, still exercise the patience and subtilty of modern civilians.
The changes and interpolations of Tribonian and his colleagues are excused by the pretence of uniformity: but their cares have been insufficient, and the antinomies, or contradictions of the Code and Pandects, still exercise the patience and subtilty of modern civilians.