Definition of pandect Pandect
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What does pandect mean?
Wiktionary 
- pandect (Noun)
A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic. - pandect (Noun)
A comprehensive collection of codes or laws.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pandect (n.)
A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. - pandect (n.)
The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pandect
pan′dekt, n. a treatise containing the whole of any science: (pl.) the digest of Roman or civil law made by command of the Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. [L.,—Gr. pandectes—pas, pan, all, dechesthai, to receive.]
