[833] Cod., I, xvii, 1.
[834] As mentioned in Cod., I, xvii, 2, 3 (Tanta and Δέδωκεν).
[835] Thirty-nine legal writers were excerpted, but many others are referred to incidentally. A sketch of the origin and development of Roman law, as well as the names and connection of the chief practitioners from Pomponius, is included; Pand., I, ii, 2.
[836] Cod., I, xvii, 2, 3; cf. I, xiv, 12. It was part of the scheme that no antinomies or contradictions should occur. Several such, however, have been detected by later jurists.
[837] Instit., præf.
[838] Pand., præf. (Omnem). See p. 219.
[839] Cod., præf., 3. The fifty Decis. are scattered through the Code without clue to their location. One Merillus spent twenty years in trying to solve the crux of identifying them.
[840] Some jottings as to the practice of the bar in this age occur in Ammianus, xxx, 4; Jn. Lydus, De Magistr., ii, 17; and Agathias, iii, 1. From the first it seems that there were a great many pettifogging lawyers, who made a practice of fleecing clients by involving them in interminable litigation.