Salvius Julianus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Julian · Julianus · the jurist Salvius Julianus
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Jurist who redacted the Praetor's Edict into the Edictum Perpetuum under Hadrian.
), and therefore probably in the lifetime of Gaius, the work which Ofilius had begun was perfected by the jurist Salvius Julianus.
Salvius Julianus, besides his redaction of the Edicts, produced a work known as Digesta, which perhaps assumed the form of detailed explanations of points of law systematically arranged.
’ From Labeo’s works there are 61 extracts in the Digest, and Labeo is cited as an authority in the extracts from other jurists oftener than any one else except Salvius Julianus.
Ancient Law
The Roman jurist and magistrate under whom the Prætor's Edict ceased to be annually extended.
The nature of the measures attributed to Salvius Julianus has been much disputed.
The immense length to which it extended, together perhaps with some distaste for its necessarily disorderly texture, caused the practice of increasing it to be stopped in the year of Salvius Julianus, who occupied the magistracy in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.