Alexander Severus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Alexander Imperator · Emperor Alexander Severus
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor in whose presence Ulpian was murdered by the praetorian guard.
A disciple and colleague of Papinian, of Syrian origin, who likewise became praefectus praetorio, was Domitius Ulpianus, murdered by the praetorian soldiery, whose domination he resisted, in the presence of the Emperor Alexander Severus:
Ancient Law
The Roman emperor in whose reign the expansive growth of Roman Equity came to an end.
But in the reign of Alexander Severus the power of growth in Roman Equity seems to be exhausted, and the succession of jurisconsults comes to a close.
It ceased to be extended by annual additions, and henceforward the equity jurisprudence of Rome was developed by the labours of a succession of great jurisconsults who fill with their writings the interval between the reign of Hadrian and the reign of Alexander Severus.
The same point of legal history was attained in England under the chancellorship of Lord Eldon the first of our equity judges who, instead of enlarging the jurisprudence of his court by indirect legislation, devoted himself through life to explaining and harmonising it.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Roman emperor cited for a saying on the confidence of just defensive war.
quod et Alexander Imperator ita expressit: