Sentences with 'corpus'
Example sentences and phrases with the word corpus and other words derived from it.
• « Emperor Justinian had legal experts review the entire corpus of Roman law, eliminate contradictions and determine which laws should be applied. He codified this project in the Corpus Juris Civilis, which is the direct textual predecessor of most of the legal systems still in use in Europe. »
• « In the ideological corpus of Nazism there are repeated words that can be considered key to understanding their worldview: race, authority, nation, leadership, the community of the people, living space. »
• « The Bill of Rights of 1689 also guaranteed certain rights to all English subjects, including trial by jury and habeas corpus (the requirement that authorities bring an imprisoned person before a court to show cause for imprisonment). »