The Body of Civil Law is comprised of which four parts?

1) the Code, a collection of earlier Roman laws (this is the main law code in the Corpus, but sometimes the term ‘Code’ is inaccurately used for the entire compilation); 2) the Digest, a voluminous selection of excerpts from the writings of Roman jurists, or legal experts; 3) the Institutes, a beginner’s textbook; and 4) the Novellae, a collection of more recent laws from Justinian’s own times.

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