The Hexabiblos
The six-book compilation of Byzantine law made by Constantine Harmenopoulos, a judge in Thessalonica, and the operative civil law of Greece for over a century after independence.
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Compilation date, author and broad Greek legal afterlife.
- Foundation of the Hellenic World: Law in the Late Byzantine Period
Harmenopoulos, compilation in 1344–1345, and continuing legal use until the Greek Civil Code in 1946.
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- The source does not establish the previously asserted regional exceptions or exact modern commencement dates. No complete primary text read.
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Harmenopoulos compiled the Hexabiblos in 1344–1345. The Foundation of the Hellenic World’s account describes its continuing role in Greek law until the Civil Code of 1946.
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- For the Love of Law
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