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* ''"Novellae"'', a number of new constitutions.
All four of these together formed Justinian's ''Corpus of Civil Law'' which deeply influenced the [[Canon Law]] of the Western Church and the civil law of Medieval Europe. The Code's underlying claim that the emperor's will was supreme in all things made imperial control of the Church legal and thus deeply influenced the subsequent development of the Byzantine Church.
It remains influential to this day. By way of the [[w:Napoleonic code|Napoleonic Code]] (AD 1804), the Justinian Code reached Canada in the Province of Quebec, and was later introduced by French immigrants to Louisiana in the United States.<ref>Rev. Dr. Nicon D. Patrinacos (M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon)). A Dictionary of Greek Orthodoxy - Λεξικον Ελληνικης Ορθοδοξιας. Light & Life Publishing, Minnesota, 1984. pp.221.</ref>
