Basilics

_ "-- What is the manuscript called the" Basilics "in the following passage, which occurs in a cotemporary MS.,

Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

'Basilics,' in the hands of the heirs of the famous lawyer lately deceased, Petrus Faber, -- desirous to enrich his country with this treasure, he transacted and agreed with the possessors for the price of it, which was no less than 500l.

Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian; but the sense of the old civilians is often superseded by the influence of bigotry: and the absolute prohibition of divorce, concubinage, and interest for money, enslaves the freedom of trade and the happiness of private life.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The change of language and manners demanded a revision of the obsolete jurisprudence of Justinian: the voluminous body of his Institutes, Pandects, Code, and Novels, was digested under forty titles, in the Greek idiom; and the Basilics, which were improved and completed by his son and grandson, must be referred to the original genius of the founder of their race.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

Basilics, [5] the code and pandects of civil jurisprudence, were gradually framed in the three first reigns of that prosperous dynasty.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Besides the Basilics, or code of laws, the arts of husbandry and war, of feeding or destroying the human species, were propagated with equal diligence; and the history of Greece and Rome was digested into fifty-three heads or titles, of which two only (of embassies, and of virtues and vices) have escaped the injuries of time.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian; but the sense of the old civilians is often superseded by the influence of bigotry: and the absolute prohibition of divorce, concubinage, and interest for money, enslaves the freedom of trade and the happiness of private life.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

_Basilics_, the code and pandects of civil jurisprudence, were gradually framed in the three first reigns of that prosperous dynasty.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Besides the _Basilics_, or code of laws, the arts of husbandry and war, of feeding or destroying the human species, were propagated with equal diligence; and the history of Greece and Rome was digested into fifty-three heads or titles, of which two only (of embassies, and of virtues and vices) have escaped the injuries of time.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Basilics, which were improved and completed by his son and grandson, must be referred to the original genius of the founder of their race.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765