pandect

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The Word of the Day for June 29 is:

pandect   \PAN-dekt\   noun
    *1  : a complete code of the laws of a country or system of 
law 
     2  : a treatise covering an entire subject 

Example sentence:
     Obedience to the pandects of a civilized society is one 
mark of a good citizen.

Did you know? 
     The original pandect was the Pandectae, a massive fifty-
volume digest of Roman civil law that was created under the 
emperor Justinian in the 6th century. The Latin word "pandectae" 
is the plural of "pandectes," which means "encyclopedic work" 
or "book that contains everything." "Pandectes" in turn derives 
from the Greek "pandektes" ("all-receiving"), from "pan-" 
("all") and "dechesthai" ("to receive"). When the word "pandect" 
first cropped up in English in the mid-16th century, it referred 
to the complete code of laws of a particular country or system. 
Its "comprehensive treatise" sense developed later that century. 

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.