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Quotation from The Institutes of Justinian by Justinian I (Tribonian and commissioners)
“Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust.”
The Institutes of Justinian, Book I, Title 1.1, trans. J. B. Moyle
The definition of the lawyer's art, which places legal knowledge within a larger knowledge of God and man.
Citation: "Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust." — Justinian I (Tribonian and commissioners), The Institutes of Justinian, Book I, Title 1.1, trans. J. B. Moyle. (id justinian-institutes-q3)
Portrait: Justinian mosaik ravenna, Mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna (photo: Bender235), Public domain.
