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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

pandect

1. A complete legal code, esp. of a nation or a system of law, together with commentary. 2. (cap. & pl.) The 50 books constituting Justinian's Digest (one of the four works making up the Corpus Juris Civilis), first published in A.D. 533. - Also termed (in sense 2) Digest. - Also spelled (in reference to German law) pandekt. Pl. pandects, pandectae See CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS.