DIGEST

Several compilations of the Roman Law have been so called; but the best known is that which was made by order of the emperor Just in i an. It is also termed the Pandects, from the Greek words itav, all, and isxtoBai, Tire; signifying the general nature of the collection. • ire of this great compilation was entrusted by the •ror to Tribonian, with seventeen a ociates. It was. ated in three years, and published a. d. 533. It con he best decisions and opinions of former jurists, col I. it is said, from more than two you sand volumes; and follows the same arrangement as the code of the same emperor, which had appeared in 529. The Pandects of Just in i an, according to the commonly received story, were nsglected in the Eastern Empire shortly after the decease i. f that emperor, and were wholly lost in the West until the accidental discovery of a MS at Amalfi in 1130. But this radilion is now347 generally believed to rest on no solid foun- [s. 361]