Liber viii3/31/2024 The expression corpus juris may also mean, not the collection of laws itself, but the legislation of a society considered as a whole. The term, although it never received legal sanction in either Roman or canon law, being merely academic phraseology, is used in the above sense when the Corpus Juris Civilis of the Christian Roman Emperors is meant. It may signify also an official and complete collection of a legislation made by the legislative power, comprising all the laws which are in force in a country or society. The term corpus (Latin for 'body') here denotes a collection of documents corpus juris, a collection of laws, especially if they are placed in systematic order. The term corpus juris canonici was used to denote the system of canonical law beginning in the thirteenth century. 3 Legal status and structure of codifications.2.6 Extravagantes Joannis XXII and Extravagantes communes.
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