Legal Definitions - pandect

Pandect (pan-dekt) refers to a complete legal code of a nation or a system of law, along with its commentary. It can also refer to the 50 books that make up Justinian's Digest, which is one of the four works that make up the Corpus Juris Civilis. This legal code was first published in A.D. 533 and is an abridgment of 2,000 treatises, which were reduced to 150,000 lines.

• A country's constitution and its accompanying laws and regulations can be considered a pandect.
• Justinian's Digest is an example of a pandect, which was created by a commission of 17 jurists in just three years.

These examples illustrate how a pandect is a comprehensive legal code that covers all aspects of a nation's or a system of law's regulations and laws. Justinian's Digest is an excellent example of how a pandect can be created by distilling a vast amount of information into a concise and manageable format.