Laws of the Roman emperors.
Definition of Constitutiones
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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
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Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd EditionLaws promulgated, i. e., enacted, by the Roman Emperor. They were of various kinds, namely, the following:
(1) Edicta;
(2) decreta;
(3) rescripta, called also "epistolœ." Sometimes they were general, and intended to form a precedent for other like cases; at other times they were special, particular or individual, (personales,) and not intended to form a precedent. The emperor had this power of Irresponsible enactment by virtue of a certain lex regia, whereby he was made the fountain of justice and of mercy. Brown. Constitutiones tempore posteriores po-tiores sunt his quæ ipsas præcesserunt. Dig. 1, 4, 4. Later laws prevall over those which preceded them.