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Home Dictionary Name: excerptExcerption
The act of excerpting or selecting...
Excerptive
That excerpts selects or chooses...
Excerpta, or excerpts
Excerpta, or excerpts, Extracts....
Excerpt
To select to extract to cite to quote...
Excerptor
One who makes excerpts a picker a culler...
Offprint
To reprint as an excerpt as the articles of some magazines are offprinted from other magazines...
Pandect', or Digesta
Pandect', or Digesta. In the last month of the year AD 530, Justinian, by a constitution addressed to Tribonian, empowered him to name a commission for the purpose of forming a code out of the writings of those jurists who had enjoyed the Jus respondendi, or, as it is expressed by the emperor, 'antiquorum prudentium quibus auctoritatem conscribendarum interpretandarumque legum sacratissimi principes pr'buerunt.' The compilation, however, comprises extracts from some writers of the republican period, Const. Deo Auctore. Ten years were allowed for the completion of the work. The instructions of the emperor were, to select what was useful, to omit what was antiquated or superfluous, to avoid unnecessary repetitions, to get rid of contradictions, and to make such other changes as should produce out of the mass of ancient juristical writings a useful and complete body of law (jus Antiquum);--the work was to be named Digesta, a Latin term indicating an arrangement of materials; or Pandect', ...
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