Leo
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Emperor Leo
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman emperor (Leo I) credited with extending inheritance capacity to municipalities in AD 469.
469, made municipalities capable of taking an inheritance (hereditas), and by the legislation of Nerva and Hadrian all municipalities (civitates) had become capable of taking bequests (legatum), Ulpian, 24, 18.
The necessity of employing any consecrated terms in a stipulation was abrogated by a constitution of Leo, dated the calends of January, a.
The Funeral Speech
Legendary Athenian father whose daughters offered themselves as a sacrifice for their country, ancestral exemplar for the Leontidae.
The Leontidae had heard the stories related of the daughters of Leo, how they offered themselves to the citizens as a sacrifice for their country’s sake.