JUS CIVI´LE FLAVIA´NUM
JUS CIVI´LE FLAVIA´NUM Appius Claudius
Caecus, who was censor B.C. 312, is said to have drawn up a book of actiones
or forms of procedure, with a calendar of days on which actions might or
might not be tried: this was made public by his clerk, Cn. Flavius, and was
known as the Jus Flavianum (
Cic. de
Or. 1.4. 1, 186). According to one story (
Dig. 1,
2,
7), Flavius surreptitiously obtained possession of the book of
Appius, and was rewarded by the people for his services by being made
tribunus plebis and curule aedile. The effect of this publication was to
extend the knowledge and the practice of the law to the plebeians, and to
separate to some extent the jus civile from the jus pontificium. This reform
was almost contemporaneous with the opening of the pontificate to the
plebeians by the Lex Ogulnia. (
Liv. 9.45;
Cic. pro Mur. 11, 25,
ad
Att. 6.1, 8;
Plin. Nat.
33.17; Macrob. 1.15, 9; Gellius vii. (vi.) 9; cf. Danz,
Lehrbuch der Gesch. des röm. Rechts, 1.49;
Karlowa,
Rechtsgesch. i. p. 475; Krüger,
Geschichte d. Quellen.）
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