... individual statutes in response to felt needs, and ended up with a miscellaneous Conglomeration of statutory instruments. Laws were enacted in the Roman Republic by tribal assemblies upon the recommendation of the Senate or a magistrate; in the early empire by the Senate alone (under supervision of the Emperor); and in the later empire by edicts of the Emperor (generally called constitutions), with ... . Statutes were often designated by the name of the magistrate that proposed them (like the Lex Hortensia, 204 BC, from the dictator Hortensius). "Common law" That part of Roman law compos...

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