INTRODUCTORY NOTE
§ 159 The transition from republic to Principate brought a new and potent factor into the legal picture of the Roman slate, theprinceps or emperor. In earlier pages the changes and developments which occurred with respect to senatus consulta during the Principate have been noted.
In this chapter the major attention will be directed to the nature of the enactments, the constitutions, which were attributed to the emperor, necessarily a new factor among the sources of the law. In addition, the role of the advisers of the emperors and bureau staff who assisted in the fashioning of the imperial acts is briefly discussed. The legal nature of the Principate and the position of the princeps therein, the manner of succession and, in general, the sweep of powers exercised by the emperor arc outside the scope of this volume. Only incidentally will the constitutional position of the emperor be involved. The fields of public law and constitutional history in the period of the Principate are fully dealt with in numerous treatises, specialized manuals, monographs and a host of articles since the time of Mommsen to the present day.1
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