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LIBRI XVI CUM CONSTITUTIONIBUS SIRMONDIANIS ( AD 429-438 ) |
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The
Theodosian Code was composed between AD 429 and 438. In 429 the
Emperor Theodosius ordered for the nine men commission to compose all
imperial constitutions since the time of Constantine. Together with
the Codex Hermogenianus and Codex Gregorianus this
collection had to be an actual law book and a model for the education
of jurists. The collection of the using constitutions had to be completed
with answers (responsa) and juridical treatises. Thus it would
put together leges and ius vetus. Nothing is known
about the result of this commission's work. The new commission of sixteen
men with the quaestor of sacred palace Antiochus was made in 435. After
two years’ working the commission made sixteen books of laws.
Not all of them were left to us in the complete volume. Most part of
the first six books is lost. |
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Codex
Theodosianus received an official status together with the Codex
Hermogenianus and Codex Gregorianus which before had only
the character of the private collections. The Codex was enforced on
15 February 438 in the East Roman Empire and 1 January 439 in the West
Empire. There are 2529 imperial issues from Constantine to Theodosius
II in it. The earliest constitution in the Codex is CTh., 13, 10, 2
of 1 June 311 and the latest is CTh., 6, 23, 4 of 16 March 437. |
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| Praefatio • Gesta senatus Romani • Novellae • Godefroy's edition of 1736 | |
