BRACHYLOGUS (from Gr. (3pax6s, short, and Xhyos, word)

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BRACHYLOGUS (from Gr. (3pax6s, short, and Xhyos, word) ,

title

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

applied in the middle of the 16th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

to a

work

WORK

containing a systematic exposition of the Roman law, which some writers have assigned to the reign of the emperor Justinian, and others have treated as an apocryphal

work

WORK

of the 16th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

. The earliest extant edition of this work was published at Lyons in 1549, under the

title

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

of Corpus Legum per modum Institutionum; and the title .Brachylogus totius Juris Civilis appears for the first time in an edition published at Lyons in 1553. The origin of the work may be referred with

great

GREAT

probability to the 12th century. There is internal evidence that it was composed subsequently to the reign of Louis le Debonnaire (778-840), as it contains a Lombard law of that king's, which forbids the testimony of a clerk to be received against a layman. On the other hand its style and reasoning is far superior to that of the law writers of the loth and 11th centuries; while the circumstance that the method of its author has not been in the slightest degree influenced by the school of the

Gloss

GLOSS, GLOSSARY

-writers (Glossatores) leads fairly to the conclusion that he wrote before that school became dominant at Bologna.

Savigny

SAVIGNY, FRIEDRICH KARL VON (1779–1861)

, who traced the history of the Brachylogus with

great

GREAT

care, is disposed to think that it is the work of Irnerius himself (Geschichte des rom. Rechts im Mittelalter). Its value is chiefly historical, as it furnishes evidence that a knowledge of Justinian's legislation was always maintained in northern Italy. The author of the work has adopted the Institutes of Justinian as the basis of it, and draws largely on the Digest, the Code and the Novels; while certain passages, evidently taken from the Sententiae Receptae of

Julius

JULIUS

Paulus

PAULUS
PAULUS (older form PAur.Lus), LUCIUS AEMILIUS
PAULUS, HEINRICH

, imply that the author was also acquainted with the Visigothic code of Roman law compiled by order of Alaric II.
An edition by E. Bocking was published at Berlin in 1829, under the title of Corpus Legum sive Brachylogus Juris Civilis. See also H. Fitting, Uber die Heimath and das Alter des sogenannten Brachylogus (Berlin, 1880).

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