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If one might name a particular moment at which so vast and complex a movement culminated, one would be tempted to suggest the reign of Hadrian, who appointed Salvius Julianus to draw up the edictum perpetuum, or permanent edict, in the year 132 A.D. Thenceforward the magistrate had to use his discretion only when the edict of Julianus did not apply.
The Prætor's proclamation, thus lengthened by a new portion every year, obtained the name of the Edictum Perpetuum, that is, the continuous or unbroken edict.
Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 7 and 9. Tacitus, Germania, 21. Legis Liutprandi, ii, 7. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 5, I. Lex Alemannorum, Tit., i. Lex Baiuvariorum, Tit., i. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 20. Edictum Rotharis, i, 121. Lex Wisigothorum, iv, 2, 13. Cf. Capitula addita ad legem Alemannorum, 29. Lex Saxonum, viii, 2.
In the year 1592 a pamphlet had been published on the Continent in Latin and English, Responsio ad Edictum Reginæ Angliæ, with reference to the severe legislation which followed on the Armada, making such charges against the Queen and the Government as it was natural for the Roman Catholic party to make, and making them with the utmost virulence and unscrupulousness.
For on coming into office he had to issue an edict, called edictum perpetuum, specifying the principles he intended to guide him in any new cases that might arise. If these were merely a continuation of those of his predecessor, his edict was called tralaticium, or "handed on."
Edictum Rotharis, 188: si puella libera aut vidua sine voluntate parentum ad maritum ambulaverit, liberum tamen, tunc maritus, qui eam acceperit uxorem, componat pro anagrip solidos XX et propter faidam alios XX. Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 2, 2. Ibid., iii, 2, 3. Lex Saxonum, vi, I: uxorem ducturus CCC solidos det parentibus eius. See also the lex Burgundionum, 66, I and 2 and 3.
* An advertisement concerning the Responsio ad Elizabethae edictum, 1592. Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, i. 140. * Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, i. 140.
Hebraist's letter, that it is only on business of the utmost importance that I have presumed to break in upon the learned leisure of Mr. Jonas Elmore." "Business!" replied Mr. Elmore, producing his spectacles, and deliberately placing them athwart his nose, "'His mane edictum, post prandia Callirhoen, etc. "Business in the morning, and the ladies after dinner.
Hebraist's letter, that it is only on business of the utmost importance that I have presumed to break in upon the learned leisure of Mr. Jonas Elmore." "Business!" replied Mr. Elmore, producing his spectacles, and deliberately placing them athwart his nose, "'His mane edictum, post prandia Callirhoen, etc. "Business in the morning, and the ladies after dinner.
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