Justinian Code was an important set of Roman civil rights laws.The collection was compiled in the years 529-534 BC.e., during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great.
Development meeting
In February 528, the decree of the Basileus Justinian I established a state commission consisting of ten persons.And 529 years April 7 issued a legislative code of Justinian.The text of this collection contains within itself all the imperial decrees and resolutions I to VI century BC.e.The next step was the systematization of the Emperor so-called ancient right (jus vetus), which represented a variety of works of Roman lawyers, as well as their comments on pretorskogo and civil law.
December 15 530 a decree was issued to establish a committee Basileus of fifteen people with famous Greek lawyer at the time Triborianom headed.In addition, the scientist, the committee includes two professors from the Academy of Constantinople, two professors from the Academy Beritskoy and eleven lawyers.The committee has been tasked to write digests - that is necessary to isolate fragments from the works of classical antiquity lawyers.This was done in the middle of December to 533 years.
parallel with this work Tribonianom, Theophilus and Dorotheus podgotovalivalis institutions that are included in the Code of Justinian later.Institutions were a textbook for law students (he eventually had four volumes).The last part of this grand meeting was the final edited code of laws, which was released in November, 534 years.
Thus, the Code of the Emperor Justinian originally consisted of three volume components: institutions (four volumes), digest (consisting of fifty books that incorporate excerpts from nearly two thousand works of Roman lawyers), the actual code (twelve books).Later, after the death of Basileus, to the three main chapters have been added so-called novels.They were written by Professor Julian Constantinople in the year 556 and is a collection of decrees and resolutions of the Emperor, published by 556 to 535 years.This was the fourth of the Code.
practical significance of the Legislative Assembly
Justinian Code from the middle of the VI century, and throughout the Middle Ages was the main source of law in most European countries.In part, this is true for Russia, as it is significantly influenced by m. N.Kormchaia - domestic collection of secular and orthodox laws.
In medieval Europe also starts active revival and assimilation of Roman law.The early feudal monarchy period, which were formed in the territories of the Western Roman Empire, adequately preserved ancient Roman law in culture and legislation.Code of Justinian until the end of the Middle Ages had a significant impact on the development of feudal relations in Western Europe.Moreover, he is now the de facto basis for the Roman-Germanic law.
