The Basilica was a collection of laws completed ca. 892 AD in Constantinople by order of the Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise during the Macedonian dynasty. This was a continuation of the efforts of his father, Basil I, to simplify and adapt the Emperor Justinian I`s Corpus Juris Civilis code of law issued between 529 and 534 which had become ou.... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilika