Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Edictum Theodoris
A col lection of Roman laws applicable to both mans and Goths, promulgated by Theodo king of the Ostrogoths, at Rome about 500, or perhaps in the time of Theodoric III OF the Visigoths in Gaul about A.D. 460.
Veredictum quasi dictum veritatis; ut judicium quasi juris dictum
A verdict is, as it were, the saying of the truth, in the same manner that a judgment is the saying of the law (or right).
aedilitium edictum
n. [latin] roman law. an edict giving remedies for fraudulent sales; the aedilitian edict. ( this edict was enforced by the aediles curules, who were municipal officers with police duties and jurisdiction over markets.
edictum
n. [Latin] Roman law. An edict or mandate; an ordinance or law enacted by the emperor without the senate, belonging to the class of constitutiones principis. ( An edict was a constitution of the emperor acting on his own initiative, differing from a rescript in not being returned in the way of answer; from a decree in not being given in judgment; and from both in not being founded upon solicitation.
edictum annuum
The annual edict or system of rules promulgated by a Roman praetor immediately upon assuming office, setting forth the principles by which the praetor would be guided in determining cases and administering justice while in office.
edictum perpetuum
The permanent part of the urban praetor's edict, edited in its final form by Julian in A.D. 131.
edictum prouinciale
An edict or system of rules for the administration of justice, similar to the edict of the praetor, set forth by the proconsuls and pro-praetors in the pro-praetors.
edictum tralatitium
praetor's edict that retained all or a princi part of the predecessor's edict, with only si additions as appeared necessary to adapt it to changing social conditions or juristic ideas,
veredictum
, n. Hist. A verdict; a declaration of the truth of a matter in issue, submitted to a jury for trial.