— Also termed Gregorian Code.
“The imperial enactments, rapidly increasing in number, covering, at hazard, the whole range of law, and, by reason of difficulties of communication and imperfect methods of promulgation, not always readily ascertainable, created a burden for the practitioner almost as great as that of the unmanageable juristic literature. Something was done to help him by two collections published privately about the end of the third century, the Codex Gregorianus and Codex Hermogenianus. These collections do not now exist: what is known of them is from citations in later literature….” W.W. Buckland, A Manual of Roman Private Law 20–21 (2d ed. 1939).
