pandect

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A comprehensive collection of codes or laws
A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic
{n} a complete treatise, a digest
A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science
{i} treatise that covers the whole of any science; a country's complete code of the laws, country's system of law; legal code
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
pandect

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    [ 'pan-"dekt ] (noun.) 1533. From Latin pandectēs (“book that contains everything”), from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης (pandektēs, “all-receiver, encyclopedia”), from πᾶν (pan, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + δέκτης (dektēs, “receiver”).
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