In the corpus juris civilis there are two passages which deserve especial attention.
The classifications of crimes which are231 contained even in the corpus juris of Justinian are remarkably capricious.
But with Justinian, who codified the laws in his corpus juris, the Hellenizing of the legal language also began.
This first official code was the basis of the second part of the corpus juris canonici.
Ostensibly it is the corpus juris of the Jews from about the first century before the Christian era to about the fourth after it.
Much of it, no doubt, was borrowed from the corpus juris canonici and the English provincial canons.
The best edition is that of Friedberg (corpus juris canonici, Leipzig, 1879).
Yet this work is not a book of tradition in the religious sense, it is really a corpus juris and not a complete one.
Arranged in five books, it forms the second part of the corpus juris canonici.
These taken together formed the corpus juris civilis of the Eastern and Western Empires.