The official first-year textbook of the restored Roman law, promulgated in 533 as the third part of Justinian's compilation and addressed by the emperor to students of law.

The third part of Justinian's compilation, alongside the Codex and the Digest, and the only one written as a teaching text rather than a reference work. It opens with the Prooemium addressed to "the youth desirous of studying the law".

Its interest to the essay is its brevity. The compilation behind it reduced some three million lines of juristic writing to a hundred and fifty thousand, and the Institutes compresses the result again into a volume that can be read in a weekend. Concision here was imperial policy rather than accident.

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Drawn on by For the Love of Law.

The Institutes of Justinian

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