Pandectics or pandectistics is a collective term for the 19th-century German study of Roman civil law based almost exclusively on the ancient Roman legal sources – the pandects or digests (Corpus iuris civilis; see Ius commune) of Justinian (Roman law, studies of). The German Historical School prior to 1848, which is often included, had other philosophical and religious premises and a different methodological program.
The differences are clearly expressed in R. von Jhering’s 18…