DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-T033-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Article Summary
Gaius was a great but not a typical classical Roman jurist. His Institutes (c.ad 161), an introductory textbook, is the first known attempt to see Roman law as a systematic whole. His scheme was used by Justinian and so played a central role in subsequent European thought on the classification of law.
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