tralaticium

Updated: May 4, 2025

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."

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius