Definition of "pandect" []

• A comprehensive digest or complete treatise. (noun)
• A complete body of laws; a legal code. (noun)
• A digest of Roman civil law, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the sixth century A.D. and part of the Corpus Juris Civilis. Also called Digest. (noun)

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• "The Jewish pandect observe a various difference between them: out of which we produce these few instances instead of more: --"
• "Therefore it is no wonder if these things which are spoken by our Saviour are not found verbatim in the Jewish pandect; for they are not so much alleged by him to shew that it was their direct design to banish away all reverence and love towards parents, as to show how wicked their traditions were, and into what ungodly consequences they oftentimes fell."
• "Jewish pandect read any example of a wife punished with death for adultery."