Note 106
By Justinian, the old law, the jus necis of
the Roman father (Institut. l. iv. tit. ix. No. 7) is
reported and reprobated. Some legal vestiges are left in
the Pandects (l. xliii. tit. xxix. leg. 3, No. 4) and the
Collatio Legum Romanarum et Mosaicarum, (tit. ii. No. 3, p.
189.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 44