(n) Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565), Syn. Justinian the Great, Justinian I
(n) the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law, Syn. Justinian code, civil law, jus civile