pandect

A digest of Roman civil law, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century AD and part of the Corpus Juris Civilis.

The definitive statement of a legal rule.

A digest or comprehensive treatise; a treatise containing the whole of any science.

Specifically plural [capitalized] A collection of Roman civil law made by the emperor Justinian in the sixth century, containing decisions or judgments of lawyers, to which the emperor gave the force and authority of law.

A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

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.

A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic.

A comprehensive collection of codes or laws.