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Digest, generally a compilation or distribution of a subject into various classes or departments; particularly the Pandects of Justinian in fifty books, containing the opinions and writings of eminent lawyers, digested in a systematical method. (See PANDECTS.) An ordered collection of legal principles, as Mr. Justice Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law. Also an arrangement of the results (usually transcribed from the marginal or head notes of the reporters) of the decisions of the courts upon litigated points of law, as Fisher's Common Law Digest, Mews's Digest of English Case Law, the Law Reports Digest, the Law Journal Quinquennial Digest, English and Empire Digest, etc.