Edictum

Lat. [from edicere, to publish or declare.] In the Roman law. A mandate, ordinance, or proclamation. An ordinance, or law, enacted by the emperor without the senate; belonging to the class of constitutuynes principis.

Inst, 1. 2. 6.

Cooper* 8 Notes, in loc, A general order published by the praetor on entering upon his office, con taming the system of rules by which he would administer justice during the year of his office.

Dig. 1. 2. 2. 10. 1 Mackeld, Civ, Law, 21, 29, §§ 31, 40.

See Calv. Lex. Jur.