Constitution (Roman law)

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Not to be confused with Roman Constitution.
The Constitutio Antoniniana in a climate-controlled display case

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legislative enactment by a Roman emperor. It includes edicts, decrees (judicial decisions), and rescripta (written answers to officials or petitioners).[1] Mandata (instructions) given by the Emperor to officials were not constitutions but created legal rules that could be relied upon by individuals.[2]

One of the most important constitutions issued by a Roman emperor was

Roman citizenship and all free women the same rights as Roman women.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "constitutions" in Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World. Online edition. Oxford University Press, 2007. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  2. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd revised edition, 2005. Online edition. Oxford University Press
    . Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Late Antiquity" by Richard Lim in The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p. 114.
  4. ^ Kolb, Frank. "Caracalla". search.eb.com/. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 29 October 2014.

Further reading

  • H. F. Jolowicz
    and B. Nicholas, Historical Introduction to Roman Law, 3rd edn. (1972)
  • Tony Honoré, Emperors and Lawyers (1981; 2nd edn. 1994).


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