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Transfer of Immovable Properties, Publicity and Land Law in the Age of Justinian: the Perspective of the Praetorian Prefect

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TRANSFER OF IMMOVABLE PROPERTIES, PUBLICITY
AND LAND LAW IN THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN:
THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PRAETORIAN PREFECT
Silvia Schiavo
1. Five edicts, issued by praefecti praetorio Orientis in V-VI century, pro-
vide stimulating perspectives on transfer of immovable properties, publicity,
land law.
The ve texts are part of a wider collection of thirty-three edicts (τύποι; in
latin formae) transmitted through Cod. Bodl. Roe 18 and published by K.E.
Zachariae in 1843.1
The edicts are not in an integral version, but in the form of epitomes. How-
ever, they offer an important overview on the normative power of praefecti
praetorio, with reference to the Eastern prefects.
The praetorian prefect had administrative, scal, jurisdictional functions
and could also create legal rules, through edicts, although with a signicant
limit: edicta could not be in contrast with the content of imperial constitu-
tions.2 Besides, the rules given by the praefecti praetorio had specic territo-
rial boundaries, as they were in force only in the praefectura where they have
been adopted.
The edicts issued by the praefecti praetorio did not need to be enforced
through imperial constitutions. They had a normative value that was inde-
pendent from a validation of the emperors.3
For the age of Justinian (the period we are interested in, as we will explain
soon) two well-known imperial constitutions can conrm this circumstance.
In CJ. 3,1,16 and CJ. 8,40(41),27, issued by Justinian in 531, the emperor
mentions generales formae/generalia edicta of the Eastern Prefecture. The
emperor transposes the rules of the edicts and decides that they have to be
1 Zachariae 1843, p. 227-278. In this article we will discuss some problems already
addressed in Schiavo 2018, p. 295-347.
2 See CJ. 1,26,2, a constitution issued in 235 by Maximinus Thrax and later accept-
ed in Codex Iustinianus. On the problems arising from this constitution, among others,
discussion in Zachariae, 1843, p. 242; Pastori 1950-1951, p. 44; Arcaria 1997, p. 301-341;
Pietrini 2010, p. 571; Fercia 2012, p. 4; Schiavo 2018, p. 12-18.
3 Goria 2011, p. 5.
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