The classical period of Roman law is that of Ulpian and other jurists of the period around 150–250 A.D. Excerpts from their works were collected, and sometimes adjusted, by a commission set up by the Emperor Justinian. This collection, the Digest or Pandects, was declared law in 533; all other writings of the jurists were declared to be no longer law and have almost entirely disappeared. The Digest forms the largest part of Justinian’s complete codification of Roman law, the Corpus of Civil Law. The Talmud and the Corpus are almost independent, except that a few of the older precepts of Jewish
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