a. Also -ean. [f. Justinian, proper name + -IAN; Justinianean is f. late L. Jūstiniāne-us + -AN.] Of or pertaining to Justinian, Emperor of the East 527–65.
Justinianian code, a compilation of the best Roman laws made by order of Justinian, published in 529 and, in a revised form, in 534; also used as a general name for all the compilations of Roman law made by Justinian’s command, including the pandectæ, institutiones, and novellæ: see DIGEST, INSTITUTE, NOVEL.
1826. C. Butler, Grotius, Introd. 32. The language and spirit of the Justinianean code.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, Introd. 9. Comparison of the Justinianian Institutes with passages in the Digest … showed … that in several places the later work was a literal transcript of the earlier. Ibid. The authors of the Justinianian compilation.
