PAULUS

Julius. A Roman jurist of high repute in the beginning of the 3rd century A.D., contemporary with Papinian and Ulpian. With the former, he was legal assessor to the emperor Septimius Severus. With the latter, he was proefectus proetorio under Alexander Severus, after he had been sent into exile by Heliogabalus. He was most productive as a legal author, but in literary skill and finish stood far below his two contemporaries. The extracts from his numerous monographs or more comprehensive works form a sixth part of the " Digest." Besides these extracts his Sententioe, a very popular compendium of undisputed principles on the most frequent points of law, has been preserved in a shortened form.