What served as the legal basis for criminal justice, marriage, property, slavery, and women's rights from the reign of Justinian until the fall of the Byzantine Empire?

Justinian code

Explanation: The Code of Justinian,  Corpus Juris Civilis is a set collection of laws developed by  ruler of the Byzantine Empire in Latin Codex Justinianus, which kiced off from 529 CE until the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 CE.

There were four books of the Justinian codes- The  Codex Constitutionum, the Digesta, the Institutiones and the Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem of which constituted already  existing laws, ancient opinions and ideas of former experts  of great Rome, and general law , all of which  interpreted imperial laws and other individual laws and served as a legal basis of criminal justice, marriage, property, slavery, and women's rights etc of which many are now  out of date.

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