Ius papirianum

The ius papirianum was probably a collection of sacred norms that codified statutes on funeral and sacrificial rites on the one hand and offenses against religious regulations on the other . The set of rules that arose from pontifical practice is said to be around 510 BC. By a Sextus Papirius . According to legendary tradition, he probably held the office of pontifex maximus shortly before or just after the expulsion of the last Roman king .

In the late Roman Republic , these regulations were assigned to the traditional royal laws ( leges regiae ). The codex, which has not been handed down, is said to have been available to the classical jurists of the Roman Empire until around the end of the 2nd century.

literature

• Marieluise Deißmann-Merten : Papirius 1-5 .. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 488.
• Max Kaser : Roman legal history : Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, 2nd revised edition, ISBN 3-525-18102-7 , p. 64.
• Wolfgang Kunkel , Martin Schermaier : Roman legal history. 13th edition, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 978-3-8252-2225-3 , pp. 33-34.