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06-29-04, 12:06AM
pandect • \PAN-dekt\ • noun
1 : a complete code of the laws of a country or system of law
2 : a treatise covering an entire subject
Example sentence:
Obedience to the pandects of a civilized society is one mark of a good citizen.
Did you know?
The original pandect was the Pandectae, a massive fifty-volume digest of Roman civil law that was created under the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Latin word "pandectae" is the plural of "pandectes," which means "encyclopedic work" or "book that contains everything." "Pandectes" in turn derives from the Greek "pandēktes" ("all-receiving"), from "pan-" ("all") and "dechesthai" ("to receive"). When the word "pandect" first cropped up in English in the mid-16th century, it referred to the complete code of laws of a particular country or system. Its "comprehensive treatise" sense developed later that century.
Everything needs certain pandects to be successful, no matter what or where it is.
1 : a complete code of the laws of a country or system of law
2 : a treatise covering an entire subject
Example sentence:
Obedience to the pandects of a civilized society is one mark of a good citizen.
Did you know?
The original pandect was the Pandectae, a massive fifty-volume digest of Roman civil law that was created under the emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Latin word "pandectae" is the plural of "pandectes," which means "encyclopedic work" or "book that contains everything." "Pandectes" in turn derives from the Greek "pandēktes" ("all-receiving"), from "pan-" ("all") and "dechesthai" ("to receive"). When the word "pandect" first cropped up in English in the mid-16th century, it referred to the complete code of laws of a particular country or system. Its "comprehensive treatise" sense developed later that century.
Everything needs certain pandects to be successful, no matter what or where it is.