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Excerpt from The Fragments of the Perpetual Edict of Salvius Julianus
But although every magistrate could issue edicts, yet, as we have already said, his edicts were strictly confined to the matters over which he had jurisdiction. Consequently the edicts of the minor ofiicials, however important in their day to persons obnoxious to their sanctions, are but of little interest to those who look back over a wide interval of time In order to detect in Roman practice, not the minutiae which changes of circumstances and ideas have rendered impossible to be imitated, but those broader principles which are valuable for ever, whether as models for adoption, when their application has been productive of good, or as beacons of warning, when their application has led to evil.
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