“Corpus Juris,” Vito said, looking up at me as I entered the door of the café. Perhaps he was especially anxious to begin on that morning, because I was still ten feet from the table when he addressed me.
Corpus Juris“I give up,” I replied with a smile. There were times that I was so clueless that I had resolved to be honest and stop flipping through pages of my journal as if I had a clue what he was talking about. I didn’t, and he knew it, so I saved myself the embarrassment.
“Corpus Juris translates to…”
Corpus Juris“A body of law,” I said, redeeming myself a bit with a quick translation from Latin.
“Certamentu,” Vito replied. “It’s sometimes called Justinian’s Code. Justinian I, the Eastern Roman Emperor during the Sixth Century A.D. compiled it. It had three parts, the first – and
