ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pandectist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Pandectist is an adjective meaning Pertaining to the Pandects compiled under the Roman emperor Justinian I.

Meaning

Pertaining to the Pandects compiled under the Roman emperor Justinian I.

More Meanings

  1. Pertaining to the German adaptation of Roman law in the early sixteenth century.
  2. An expert on the Pandects compiled under the Roman emperor Justinian I.
  3. A proponent or developer of a complete code of laws of a country, especially of the German pandestic law.

Example Sentences

His main opus is the Lehrbuch des Pandektenrechts (textbook on pandectist law, 1861-70)
Pandectist ideas were taken to be notions of general jurisprudence and therefore applicable to any developed legal system.
Many of the pandectists, however, do not mention the ammus negotia aliena gerendi among the requirements of negotiorum gestio;
It is due to the pervasive influence of pandectist scholarship that the concept of ownership is generally described and understood as 'absolute' in nature.

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