Pandectists

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The term "Pandectists" refers to a historical school of Roman law scholars in 19th-century Germany who revived the scientific study of the Pandects. The Pandects themselves are a collection of passages from Roman jurists, compiled into 50 books by order of Emperor Justinian in 533 AD. This compilation was intended to cover all aspects of Roman civil law, with the name deriving from Greek words meaning "all-receiving". The leader of the Pandectist school was Friedrich Karl von Savigny.12

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On the Continent the pandectists, a group of systematic jurists prominent in Germany, took the agglomerative tendency inherent in the Roman conception of property and developed it to a point that most modern commentators find goes far beyond what the Roman sources themselves suggest. Their ideas were embodied in…
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On the Continent the pandectists, a group of systematic jurists prominent in Germany, took the agglomerative tendency inherent in the Roman conception of property and developed it to a point that most modern commentators find goes far beyond what the Roman sources themselves suggest. Their ideas were embodied in…
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