Question

what is the justinian code?

Answer 1

The Byzantine Empire inherited a mess of laws from Rome along with a number of regional ones. It was like staring into legal spaghetti, so Justinian I ordered it to be cleaned up and made into a form that anyone could understand and guaranteed a standard level of justice from one corner of the empire to the next. That's what became known as the Justinian Code.

Answer 2

It stated that there is a unity between church and state and that anyone that was not a connect toChristianity was declared a non-citizen. It also put up laws against certain pagan practices. Jews couldnot testify against a christian, they could not hold public offices. There civil and religious rights restrictedand they couldn't speak Hebrew, which is important in many of there prayers. These laws would have aoppressive impact on Jews for hundreds of years to follow.Justinian gave orders to collect legal materials of various kinds into several new codes, spurred on by therevival of interest in the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages. This revived Roman law, in turn,became the foundation of law in all civil law jurisdictions. The provisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis alsoinfluenced the Canon Law of the church since it was said that ecclesia vivit lege romana
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the churchlives under Roman law.Justinian's law resulted the Corpus juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) called the Justinian Code. It consists of 4 parts:1 Codex (a collection of Imperial statutes)2 Digest (writings and interpretations of Roman jurists)3Institutes (a textbook for students)4Novels (the laws enacted after the publication of the Codex)Suspended during the Middle Ages (500-1350) it was kept alive in Cannon law of the Church.It forms the basis of modern civil law in Europe and in other non-English-speaking countries, as well as in the state of Louisiana.