PANDECT: 1: a complete code of the laws of a country or system of law 2: a treatise covering an entire subject
The original pandect was the Pandectae, a masive 50-volume digest of Roman civil law that was created under the emperor Justinian in the sixth century. The Latin word pandectae is the plural of pandectes, which means "eccyclopedic work" or "book that covers everything." Pandectes in turn dervies from the Greek pandektes ("all receiving"), from pan - ("all") and dechesthai ("to recieve"). When the word "pandect" first cropped up in English in the mid-16th century, it referred to the complete code of laws of a particular country or system. It's "comprehensive treatise" sense developed later that century.
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