# Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian Date: 131 ## The fact About 131 [Hadrian](/people/hadrian) had Salvius Julianus put the praetorian edict into a perpetual compiled form. The dated legal freeze is not Justinian’s sixth-century Digest and not the four consulars’ deaths. Hadrian’s documented role is: He commissioned a jurist to fix the praetor’s edict as a standing text. Julianus compiled; praetors lost annual rewrite; Hadrian did not draft every clause. Do not treat this as Justinian’s later Digest. A Hadrianic edict freeze is a different instrument. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Hadrian's documented role is: He commissioned a jurist to fix the praetor’s edict as a standing text. Julianus compiled; praetors lost annual rewrite; Hadrian did not draft every clause. ## Context Annual praetorian edicts had been a republican-to-imperial practice. A standing text is not unique authorship of every later ius honorarium. Later law-school memory is evidence, not 131 type. Named others on the file: Salvius Julianus as compiler, unnamed jurists, and later law teachers share the heading. The public setting is the file around 0131-01-01. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian. The setting of Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian is the public file around 0131-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## Evidence and sources Britannica’s Hadrian and Julianus articles independently date the perpetual edict compilation. Official: Britannica — Hadrian, Edictum perpetuum (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hadrian; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Salvius Julianus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvius-Julianus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Hadrian, Edictum perpetuum (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hadrian; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Salvius Julianus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvius-Julianus; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official or archival record: Britannica — Hadrian, Edictum perpetuum (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hadrian; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Improving justice path: reducing yearly rewrite of the praetor’s edict (weakening erosion of legal publicity). Complex shared juristic work. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated legal-codification heading reduced yearly praetorian rewrite as a public-law stability instrument. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## What is established and what is not Established: a Hadrianic commission for a perpetual edict. Not established: that every later Digest title is this same text. Established: a sourced public record of Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian under 0131-01-01. Established: a sourced public record of Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian under 0131-01-01. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not treat this as Justinian’s later Digest. A Hadrianic edict freeze is a different instrument. Mixed effects of Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian are separate paths. Shared responsibility is part of Salvius Julianus compiles the Edictum perpetuum under Hadrian. Naming Hadrian does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0131-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. ## People - Hadrian: https://factrail.ai/people/hadrian ## Drivers - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Salvius-Julianus - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hadrian ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/had-edictum-perpetuum-131