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Neque leges neque senatus consulta ita scribi possunt ut omnes casus qui quandoque inciderint comprehendantur; sed sufficit ea quae plerumque accidunt contineri
Neither laws nor acts of senate can be so written as to include all cases that have happened at any time; it is sufficient that those things that usually occur are encompassed. Dig. 1.3.10. pr.
senatus consulta
[Latin] Roman law. Advice from the Roman Senate, which had no legal weight (though it was usu. followed) until the end of the second century A.D., when it became the official expression of the imperial will. "Senatus consulta. - In the regal and republican periods the Senate enjoyed no legislative power. It was an advisory body, nominated by the King, and at first purely patrician. Later it . . . included patricians and plebeians ... its chief duty still being to tender advice to the magistrates . . . . The theory still was, till the time of Hadrian, that senatus consults were directions to the magistrates, who were now in fact, if not in name, bound to give effect to them, till by a process of gradual usurpation senatus consulta came to be direct legislation." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 12-13 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).