Digest (Roman law)

The Digest (Latin: Digesta), also known as the Pandects (Pandectae; Greek: Πανδέκται, Pandéktai, 'All-Containing'), was a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 530–533 AD. It is divided into 50 books.

• Domus tutissimum cuique refugium atque receptaculum.
• Every man's house is his castle.
  • Dig. lib. 2, tit. 4, 18
  • Cited in Classical and Foreign Quotations (1904), no. 582
  • See also: Castle doctrine

• Ulpian