The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 2 of 2) / A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages

by Henry Osborn Taylor

[350] Ibid. 39.

[351] Dig. l. 17, 30.

[352] Dig. l. 17, 31.

[353] Ibid. 54.

[354] Ibid. 202.

[355] Dig. l. 16, 24; Ibid. 17, 62.

[356] Cod. Theod. (ed. by Mommsen and Meyer) i. 1, 5.

[357] With the Theodosian Code the word lex, leges, begins to be used for the constitutiones or other decrees of a sovereign.

[358] From the constitution directing the compilation of the Digest, usually cited as Deo auctore.

[359] The original plan of Theodosius embraced the project of a Codex of the jurisprudential law. See his constitution of the year 429 in Theod. C. i. 1, 5. Had this been carried out, as it was not, Justinian’s Digest would have had a forerunner.