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The Novellae Constitutiones ("new constitutions"; Ancient Greek: Νεαραὶ διατάξεις, romanized: Nearaì diatáxeis), or Justinian's Novels, are now considered

laws; today these are counted as a fourth part of the Corpus, the Novellae Constitutiones (Novels, literally New Laws). The work was directed by Tribonian

were created during his reign. The fourth part, the Novellae Constitutiones (New Constitutions, or Novels), was compiled unofficially after his death

ending 4 June 536. This Synod condemned Anthimus, as noted in Novellae Constitutiones XLII from Justinian, addressed directly to Menas. Within this same

further legislation, which was later collected separately as the Novellae Constitutiones (New Laws or, conventionally, the "Novels"). The original Codex

Civilis are the Digest, the Codex Justinianus, and the Novellae Constitutiones ("New Constitutions" or "Novels"). Justinian's Institutes was one part of

used for regulations and orders, such as the imperial enactments (constitutiones principis: edicta, mandata, decreta, rescripta). Later, the term was

empsychos was established in law by the emperor Justinian I in his Novellae Constitutiones, and introduced into European civil law through the discovery of

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108233255.008; Novellae Constitutiones 140. Garland (1999), pp. 16–17 Sarris, Peter (2017). "Emperor Justinian"

continued to help draft new laws for Justinian; these new laws (Novellae Constitutiones) were later combined with the Codex Justinianus, the Digest and