corpus juris

American  

[kawr-puhs joor-is] / ˈkɔr pəs ˈdʒʊər ɪs /

noun

1. a compilation of law, or the collected law of a nation, state, etc.

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corpus juris British  

/ ˈdʒʊərɪs /

noun

1. a body of law, esp the laws of a nation or state

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Etymology

Origin of corpus juris

1825–35; < Late Latin: literally, body of law

Example Sentences

It is here that we must stop and consider that when the English transition to statutory law finally got rolling in the mid-1500s, the extremely detailed and sophisticated Corpus Juris Civilis had been on papyrus for over a millennium.

From Forbes

When the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I commanded that great compilation or Roman Law known as the Corpus Juris Civilis, or more commonly the Civil Code, the accompanying commentary known as the Institutes of Justinian gave a very detailed treatment of fraudulent transfer law which in substance is little changed from when those Institutes were published in the year 533 A.D.

From Forbes

The great Corpus Juris Civilis, that comprehensive restatement of Roman law which was mandated by the Emperor Justinian I, carefully abstracted by a team assembled by Tribonion from over 2,000 books written by some 39 selected Roman legal scholars such as Ulpian and Gaius, and issued in various parts from 529 to 534 A.D., set forth the basic principles of corporate law.

From Forbes

Redress in this case was long in coming, but at last the investigation set on foot by Clement V. convinced him of the truth of the facts alleged, and at the Council of Vienne, in 1311, he caused the adoption of canons, embodied in the Corpus Juris, which placed on record conspicuously his conviction that the inquisitorial office was frequently abused by the extortion of money from the innocent and the escape of the guilty through bribery.

From Project Gutenberg

He wrote an answer, asking meanwhile several questions, and, short as was this conversation, and though Beethoven took no farther notice of the bearer of the note, who had scarcely arrived at manhood, my longing merely to hear the voice of the man for whom I felt infinitely more esteem than for Kant and the whole corpus juris put together, was gratified, and the acquaintance, subsequently so important and eventful to me, was made.

From Project Gutenberg