COMPLAW4

COMPARATIVE LAW
W.B. Fisch, Winter 1999
Assignment #4

2. Sources of [Roman] Law: Statutes, Edicts, and Juristic Interpretation

legislation

acts
plebian statutes
senate resolutions (senatus consulta)
imperial enactments (constitutiones)

edicts (as highest magistrate)
mandates (standing orders to administration)
decisions in individual cases

decrees (adjudication of disputes)
rescripts (answers to questions or petitions)

praetorian edicts

role of praetors as administrators of justice (remedies)
formulary system
development of edicts to Julian's perpetual edict around 200 AD
judicial procedure

formulary

in jure before the Praetor
apud judice before the judge

extraordinary

juristic interpretation (responsa, etc.)

distinction between jurists and advocates
jus respondendi
forms of legal literature

textbooks
commentaries
case summaries ("problematic" works)
monographs

3. Family Law: Patria Potestas

pater familias
adoption