edict
In Roman law, an edict (from Latin edicere, “to decree”, “to make known”) denotes public declarations by the magistrate , especially those of the praetors on the principles of the application of the law (promise of legal protection) during their term of office. Later it was also used to describe the emperor's laws .
The term is used in modern times
- especially for laws of French kings that regulate a single subject (as opposed to ordinance ),
- in the legal language, however, also for public announcements (as opposed to notifications that are only sent to those involved in the proceedings).
Important examples:
- Diocletian's Edict against the Manicheans (297?)
- Edict of Tolerance of Galerius (311)
- Edict of Tolerance of Milan (313)
- Edict of Speeches (362)
- Edict against Origenem (543)
- Edict of Salerno (Edict of Melfi) (1231–1243)
- Alhambra Edict (1492)
- Edict of Worms (1521)
- Edict of Villers-Cotterêts (1539)
- Edict of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1562) (January edict )
- Edict of Nantes (1598)
- Edict of Restitution (1629)
- Edict of Fontainebleau (1685)
- Edict of Potsdam (1685)
- Edict Release of Subjects , Prussia (1748)
- Edict of Versailles (1787)
- Prussian Jewish edict (1812)
See also
- Law in Ancient Rome
- Edicts of Ashoka (India, 3rd century BC) - in a legally figurative sense
- Pragmatic sanction , especially solemn edict
- Edictum
literature
- Theodor Kipp : Edictum . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1940-1948 (Roman law).
Web links
Wiktionary: Edict - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ^ Gaius , Institutiones Gai , 1.5 ( decreto vel edicto vel epistula ).