 It may signify also an official and complete collection of a legislation made by the legislative power, comprising all the laws which are in force in a country or society.The term, although it never received legal sanction in either Roman or canon law, being merely academic phraseology, is used in the above sense when the "Corpus juris civilis" of the Christian Roman Emperors is meant.The expression "corpus juris" may also mean, not the collection of laws itself, but the legislation of a society considered as a whole.