Responsa
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- In Papinian
…cases: Quaestiones (37 books) and Responsa (19 books). In post-Classical law schools, third-year students, who were called Papinianistae, used the Responsa as the basis of their curriculum. The Law of Citations (426 ce) of Theodosius II, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, made Papinian predominant among five Classical jurists (the…
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