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Meaning of Responsa prudentum
(Lat.) In Roman law. Opinions given by Roman lawyers. Before the time of Augustus, every lawyer was authorized, de jure, to answer questions put to him; and all such answers, responsa prudentum, had equal authority, which had not the force of law, but the opinion of a lawyer. Augustus was the first prince who gave to certain distinguished jurisconsults the particular privilege of answering in his name, and from that period their answers required greater authority. Adrian determined in a more precise manner the degree of authority which these answers should have, by enacting that the opinions of such authorized jurisconsults, when unanimously given, should have the force of law (legis vicem), and should be followed by the judges, and that when they were divided, the judge was allowed to adopt that which to him appeared the most equitable. The opinions of other lawyers held the same place they had before they were considered merely as the opinions of learned men. Mackeld. Man. Introd. § 43; Mackeld. Hist. Dr. Rom. §§ 40, 49; Hugo, Hist. Dr. Rom. § 313; Inst. 1. 2. 8; Inst. Expl. note 39.
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Concept of “Responsa Prudentum”
Traditional meaning of responsa prudentum in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) The opinions of Roman lawyers given as experts; see 1st Book (“The Rights of Persons”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 80.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Responsa Prudentum”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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