novels — Roman Law. an imperial enactment subsequent and supplementary to an imperial compilation and codification of authoritative legal materials. Usually, Novels. imperial enactments subsequent to the promulgation of Justinian's Code and supplementary to it: one of the four divisions of the Corpus Juris Civilis.
tomes — a book, especially a very heavy, large, or learned book.
works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
readers — the process of interpreting data in printed, handwritten, bar-code, or other visual form by a device (optical scanner or reader) that scans and identifies the data.
treatises — a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay.