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that_o time_n happy_o pithy_o and_o compendious_o reduce_v the_o fifty_o volume_n of_o pandect_n out_o of_o caius_n his_o commentary_n and_o other_o into_o four_o book_n of_o institution_n which_o that_o sacred_a emperor_n
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