Sentence:  No doubt the Roman law of the post-classical period, and English law from and after the career of Pollock, have tended to become more self-conscious and theoretical in character, but Roman law never reached a state at all comparable to that reached by the <WSD>pandectist</WSD>s of the nineteenth century, nor has English law yet reached it, if it ever will. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A proponent or developer of a complete code of laws of a country, especially of the German pandestic law.