pandect


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pandect /ˈpandɛkt/
noun chiefly historical a complete body of the laws of a country.

■ (the Pandects) a 6th-century compendium of the Roman civil law.

– derivatives
pandectist noun.
– origin C16: from Fr. pandecte, from L. pandecta, from Gk pandektēs ‘all-receiver’.
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