{"product_id":"the-digest-of-justinian-volume-2","title":"The Digest of Justinian, Volume 2","description":"The Digest of Justinian, Volume 2\nRevised English-Language Edition\nEdited by Alan Watson\n\n\"A major achievement, and an event of the first importance.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Legal History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Definitive.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Retainer\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"A landmark.\"--\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Superb.\"--\u003ci\u003eTexas Bar Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nWhen Justinian became sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527, he ordered the preparation of three compilations of Roman law that together formed the Corpus Juris Civilis. These works have become known individually as the \u003ci\u003eCode\u003c\/i\u003e, which collected the legal pronouncements of the Roman emperors, the \u003ci\u003eInstitutes\u003c\/i\u003e, an elementary student's textbook, and the \u003ci\u003eDigest\u003c\/i\u003e, by far the largest and most highly prized of the three compilations. The \u003ci\u003eDigest\u003c\/i\u003e was assembled by a team of sixteen academic lawyers commissioned by Justinian in 533 to cull everything of value from earlier Roman law. It was for centuries the focal point of legal education in the West and remains today an unprecedented collection of the commentaries of Roman jurists on the civil law.\n\nCommissioned by the Commonwealth Fund in 1978, Alan Watson assembled a team of thirty specialists to produce this magisterial translation, which was first completed and published in 1985 with Theodor Mommsen's Latin text of 1878 on facing pages. This paperback edition presents a corrected English-language text alone, with an introduction by Alan Watson.\n\nLinks to the three other volumes in the set: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/14476.html\"\u003eVolume 1 [Books 1-15]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/14478.html\"\u003eVolume 3 [Books 30-40]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpress\/book\/14479.html\"\u003eVolume 4 [Books 41-50]\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eAlan Watson\u003c\/b\u003e, Earnest P. Rogers Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, is the author of many books in legal history, including \u003ci\u003eRome of the Twelve Tables\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRoman Slave Law\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.upenn.edu\/pennpres\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67571665895791,"sku":"9780812220346","price":255.25,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/081222034X.jpg?v=1790379843","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/the-digest-of-justinian-volume-2","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}