“By the time when the Digest and Institutes had been completed it was obvious that the Codex, published little more than four years earlier, was incomplete, since in the interval Justinian … had promulgated other new con-stitutions. Tribonian, therefore, was appointed to revise the Code, so as to bring it fully up to date, and at the end of the year A.D. 534 this new Code, known as the Codex Repetitae Praelectionis, was promulgated, and is the only Code which survives to the present day. Justinian seems to have laboured under the erroneous impression that the system he had framed would be adequate for all time. But as there is nothing static about law, further legislative enactments, termed Novellae Constitutiones, were issued during his reign…. In modern times Justinian’s various compilations came to be called collectively the Corpus Juris Civilis: the Corpus being regarded as a single work, made up of the Institutes, the Digest, the Codex Repetitae Praelectionis, and the Novels.” R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 44 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).
codex repetitae praelectionis
Codex Repetitae Praelectionis (koh-deks rep-[schwa]-tI-tee pri-lek-shee-oh-nis). [Latin “code of the resumed reading”] Roman law. See JUSTINIAN CODE.
