Edictum

I. In the Roman law. An edict; a mandate or ordinance; an ordinance or law enacted by the emperor without the senate; a general order published by the praetor, on entering upon office, containing the system of rules by which he would administer justice during the year of his office. Edictum perpetimni: the perpetual edict, — a compilation or system of law in fifty books, digested by Julian, a lawyer of great eminence in the reign of Adrian, from the Praetor's edicts and other parts of the Jus Honorarium. All that remains is the extracts in the Digests.