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Regulae and Pandectae, Modestinus

The last jurist of the classical era to be granted the formal right to issue binding legal opinions, Modestinus's original treatises on legal rules and case law are lost outright and survive only as excerpts quoted in Justinian's Digest three centuries later.

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