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Scope and Contents “Justinian’s greatest accomplishment was the codification of Roman law. This was done under his direction, by his principal law officer Tribonian, assisted by ten learned civilians, between the years 529 and 533 A.D. This intensive enterprise produced [i]Corpus Juris Civilis,[/i] a work in four parts. The Code, in which earlier codes were recast and brought together. The Digest, 9, 123 excerpts of legal opinions gathered from over 2000 works. The...