Azo, Summa Codicis 1.14, Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 14, fol. 6r (ca. 1250)
Lex is a perfect term suited to the jurisprudence of legal positivism (John Austin)
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Azo, Summa Codicis 1.14, Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 14, fol. 6r (ca. 1250) |
Azo (ca. 1200-1220), Summa Codicis, De legibus et constitutionibus principis Cod. 1.14, Aschaffenburg Stiftsbibliothek Perg. 15, fol. 4v, (Lyon 1564) fol. 8r, Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 14, fol. 6r-6v |
| Lex autem
ponitur quandoque stricte quandoque large, stricte ut cum ponitur pro
statuto populi Romani, et hoc est quod dicitur lex est .
. . Lex est commune praeceptum virorum prudentium .
. . Quandoque ponitur large pro omni rationabili
statuto. Vt et dicitur lex est sanctio sancta, iubens honesta
prohibens contraria. Et ita regula est iustorum et iniustorum,
ut dicitur in translatione greci, ut ff. eodem l.ii. (Dig. 1.3.2). (Lex
moreover is used sometimes narrowly and sometimes broadly, narrowly as when
it is used to describe a statute of the Roman people, and this is what is
said is lex . . . Lex is the general command of prudent
men . . . Sometimes lex is defined broadly as in all
reasonable statutes. Whence lex is called a pious ordinance,
commanding right actions and prohibiting wrong. Thus lex is a rule of
the just and the unjust, as is stated in the translation of the Greek in
the Digest.) Lex is a perfect term suited to the jurisprudence of legal positivism (John Austin) |
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