Praetorian Edict
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Edictum Perpetuum · Perpetual Edict · Prætorian Edict · the Edict
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Institutes of Roman Law
The annual proclamation of the praetor setting out the rules and remedies he would apply, eventually fixed into a permanent (perpetual) form.
‘De jurisdictione idem (Ofilius) edictum praetoris primus diligenter composuit.
It is possible that the common elements in the provincial edicts were reduced to a system at this time.
26) uses the expression ‘Jam sublato edicto divi Augusti,’ a phrase which suggests something more than mere neglect.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The body of Roman equity jurisprudence developed alongside the Twelve Tables.
Let us now turn to the Prætorian or Perpetual Edict, the body of Roman Equity jurisprudence as opposed to the Roman Common Law constructed out of the Twelve Tables and out of the accretion of legal rules which had them for a nucleus.
But the Edict of the Prætor, even when consolidated by Julianus, did not divide law into Law of Persons, Law of Things, and Law of Actions.