Papinian

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Papinian was a highly influential Roman jurist of the early 3rd century whose legal opinions became foundational to later Roman and European law.

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Label Occurrences
Papinian canonical 4
Aemilius Papinian 1
Aemilius Papinianus 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Roman citizen
Roman jurist
jurist
legal scholar
person
advisorTo Septimius Severus
alsoKnownAs Papinian
surface form: Aemilius Papinian

Papinian
surface form: Papinianus
areaOfExpertise interpretation of praetorian edicts
responsa (legal opinions)
birthCentury 2nd century
citizenship Roman Empire
deathCause execution
deathCentury 3rd century
employer Roman provincial administration
surface form: Roman imperial administration
era Severan dynasty
executedUnder Caracalla
surface form: Emperor Caracalla
fieldOfWork Roman law
jurisprudence
floruit early 3rd century
fullName Papinian self-linksurface differs
surface form: Aemilius Papinianus
hasWorkType casuistic legal opinions
influenced Byzantine law
Roman private law
civil law tradition
medieval European law
languageOfWork Latin
legacy foundational authority in later Roman law
major source for later European civil law
legalAuthorityIn Roman Empire
legalOpinionsUsedIn Corpus Juris Civilis
Digest of Justinian
notableWork Quaestiones
Responsa
occupation jurist
praetorian prefect
oneOf five classical Roman jurists of the Law of Citations
placeOfActivity Rome
positionHeld legal adviser to the emperor
praetorian prefect of the Roman Empire
reasonForExecution refusal to justify Caracalla’s murder of Geta (traditional account)
recognizedBy Law of Citations of 426 AD
reputation one of the greatest Roman jurists
servedUnder Caracalla
surface form: Emperor Caracalla

Septimius Severus
surface form: Emperor Septimius Severus
workSubject Roman law
surface form: Roman civil law

legal procedure
private law

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Digest includesWorkOf Papinian
Ulpian influencedBy Papinian
Papinian fullName Papinian self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Aemilius Papinianus
Papinian alsoKnownAs Papinian
this entity surface form: Papinianus
Papinian alsoKnownAs Papinian
this entity surface form: Aemilius Papinian