[1807] The jurists refer to them by the names of their proposers; hence such designations as Velleianum, Trebellianum (see last note). But such designations are not official. The S. C. Macedonianum is called after the offender who had been the occasion of the decree.
[1808] Gaius i. 4 “Senatus consultum est, quod senatus jubet atque constituit: idque legis vicem obtinet, quamvis fuerit quaesitum.”
[1809] Dig. 1, 1, 7; 1, 3, 9.
[1810] Lex de imp. Vesp. 1. 17 “utique quaecunque ex usu rei publicae majestateque divinarum humanarum publicarum privatarumque rerum esse censebit, ei agere facere jus potestasque sit, ita uti divo Augusto ... fuit.”
[1811] Tac. Ann. i. 77 “divus Augustus immunes verberum histriones quondam responderat, neque fas Tiberio infringere dicta ejus.”
[1812] p. 363.
[1813] Paulus in Dig. 28. 2, 26 “Filius familias, si militet ... aut heres scribi aut exheredari debet, jam sublato edicto divi Augusti, quo cautum fuerat ne pater filium militem exheredet.”
[1814] It was sometimes used in a more general sense for constitutio principis, as when Papinian says “Jus ... civile est quod ex legibus, plebis scitis, senatus consultis, decretis principum, auctoritate prudentium venit” (Dig. 1, 1, 7).
[1815] Dig. 4, 2, 13 “Exstat enim decretum divi Marci in haec verba, etc.... Caesar dixit, etc.”
[1816] “Rescript” is properly an answer to a letter, but it soon came to be used as exquivalent to epistola. See Kipp op. cit. p. 37.