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One emperor tried to organize centuries of contradictory laws

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Modern legal systems owe their existence to a sixth-century emperor who got so frustrated with contradictory laws that he hired scholars to compile them into one massive, boring textbook. The Justinian Code stripped away centuries of legal ambiguity, establishing a framework of bureaucratic rigidity that still torments law students today.

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