# CTh 9.40.13 of 18 August 382 requires a pause before capital sentences are carried out

Date: 382

## The fact

Grenoble’s Roman-law portal independently of DIR’s reign narrative preserves the later-coded criminal constitutions of these years.

It is one event.

## Context

It does not cancel later massacre. Shared colleague emperors named on the law remain.

[Theodosius I](/people/theodosius-i)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

The thirty-day (or delayed-execution) constitution is a 382 law in the later code, not a 390 invention after Thessalonica even when later writers moralise it that way. Store the constitution on its own date. Thessalonica remains a 390 harm row.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Grenoble — Roman law texts including the Theodosian Code and De Imperatoribus Romanis — Theodosius I independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Grenoble — Roman law texts including the Theodosian Code (https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/; Université Grenoble Alpes / Droit romain).

## Significance

The 382 delay-law is a justice path of medium confidence on later moralising uses, high that a capital-delay constitution sits in the code under this reign-cluster.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Theodosius I.

They are not a public rating.

Theodosius I did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not redate 9.40.13 to 390. Do not treat it as Ambrose’s letter. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Theodosius I.

## People

- Theodosius I: https://factrail.ai/people/theodosius-i

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://roman-emperors.sites.luc.edu/theo1.htm
- https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/theo-death-sentence-delay-382