4. Senatus consulta, the “orders of the senate”; because when the people of Rome grew so numerous as it was inconvenient to assemble them; it was thought fit by the emperor that men should consult the senate, instead of the people; and these have some resemblance with the acts of council.

5. “The edicts of praetors,” and in some cases of “aediles”; such as are the chief justices in the courts of England.