Chapter 12. On the senatus consultum.
1. A senatus consultum is that which the senators alone determine in council for the people.
Chapter 13. On the constitution or edict.
1. A constitution or edict is what the king or emperor enacts or proclaims.
Chapter 14. On the responses of the jurists (responsa prudentum).
1. They are the responses which the jurisconsults are said to make to men who consult them. From this the responses of Paulus were so named. For there were certain wise men and judges of equity who composed and published institutions of civil law, by which they settled the suits and contentions of disputants.
Chapter 15. On consular and tribunitian laws.
1. Certain laws are named from those who secured their enactment, as consular, tribunitian, Julian, Cornelian. Papius and Poppaeus, consules suffecti[296] under Caesar Octavianus, carried a law which was called from their names Papia Poppaea, offering rewards to fathers for rearing children.
2. Under the same emperor, Falcidius, a tribune of the people, carried a law that no one should bequeath property in such a way that a fourth, at least, should not remain for the heirs. And it was named the lex Falcidia from him. Aquilius also secured the passage of a law which is called Aquilia to the present time.
Chapter 16. On the lex satyra.