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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....
Digestive
Pertaining to digestion having the power to cause or promote digestion as the digestive ferments...
Digestibleness
The quality of being digestible digestibility...
Digest
To distribute or arrange methodically to work over and classify to reduce to portions for ready use or application as to digest the laws etc...
digest
digest [Latin digesta, from neuter plural of digestus, past participle of digerere to disperse, arrange] : a compilation of legal rules, statutes, or decisions systematically arranged ...
Digestion
The act or process of digesting reduction to order classification thoughtful consideration...
Digestedly
In a digested or well arranged manner methodically...
Digester
One who digests...
Digestible
Capable of being digested...
Digestibility
The quality of being digestible...
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