DIGEST

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 262 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DIGEST , a

term

TERM

used generally of any digested or carefully arranged collection or compendium of written matter, but more particularly in law of a compilation in condensed form of a

body

BODY

of law digested in a systematical method; e.g. the Digest (Digesta) or Pandects (lI&vaeKTat) of Justinian, a collection of extracts from the earlier jurists compiled by

order

ORDER
ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis,
rank
- RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)
, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
ORDER, HOLY

of the emperor Justinian. The word is also given t'o the compilations of the

main

MAIN (from the
Aryan
- ARYAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

points (marginal or

hand

-notes) of decided cases, usually arranged in alphabetical and subject

order

ORDER
ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis,
rank
- RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)
, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
ORDER, HOLY

, and published under such titles as " Common Law Digest," "

Annual

ANNUAL

Digest," &c.

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