Digest, a name often given to the Pandects (q.v.) of the civil or Roman law, because they contained 'Legalia præcepta excellenter digesta.'
Digest
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 812
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Digest, a name often given to the Pandects (q.v.) of the civil or Roman law, because they contained 'Legalia præcepta excellenter digesta.'