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Digest

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....

Abridgment, or Digests of the Law

Abridgment, or Digests of the Law, of ancient authority. The principal of these are Statham's, Brooke's, Fitzherbert's, and Rolle's Abridgments, and Comyn's Digest. Besides these there are Viner's and Bacon's Abridgments, and Harrison's, Chitty's, Fisher's, and Mews' Digests, of later date; and the English and Empire Digest; also the Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England; and The Laws of England, Halsbury, and Hailsham editions....

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