PANDECTE, in jurisprudence, the digest or collection, made by Justinian's order, of 534 decisions or judgments of the ancient lawyers, on as many questions occurring in the civil law; to all which that emperor gave Pandicule the force and authority of law, by the epistle prefixed to the collection. The word is Greek, Πανδεκται, being compounded of εν, all, and δικαιο, I take; that is, a compilation, or a book containing everything relative to public and private rights. Others, however, as Bartoli, think it was formed from εν, and δικαιο, because these books were supposed to contain the whole doctrine of the civil law. See the article Civil Law.