Legacy
Papinianus was one of the most revered of Roman jurists by the Romans, as third year law students were given the title "Papinianistae" (meaning "they that are worthy to study Papinian"). French jurist Jacques Cujas later wrote that "there was never such a great lawyer before, nor ever will be after him". In his time, he had been called "the Asylum of Right and Treasurer of the Laws". Along with Gaius, Paulus, Modestinus and Ulpian, he was made one of the five jurists whose recorded views were considered decisive by the Law of Citations of 426; their views would later be considered the only suitable ones to be cited as primary sources for the Codex Theodosianus and the Corpus iuris civilis, provided that Papinian's views prevailed whenever those of the four other jurists were not congruent.
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