Also known as:
Latin: Lex Romana Rhaetico-Curiensis
UDINE ROMAN LAW. - So called because Canciani found a copy of it in a codex of the chapter library of Udine. Subsequently, when other codices of the same law were discovered in the Swiss monastery of St. Gall, it was held that the law derived from Cora, the ancient Curia Raetica, whence also the name given to the law, Lex Romana Rhaetico-Curiensis.
It is a derivation from the Breviarium Alaricianum (v. ALARIC II), but is in part independent of it; the chapters of the Breviarium are there provided with the interpretatio.
Schupfer firmly maintained that the homeland of the l. r. u. was Italy, but the Theodosian text of which it is woven, the absence of any admixture of Lombard law, and the feudal characteristics revealed in it would tend to exclude this. It is used in the chapters of BishopRemedius, and the geographical and political milieu that it describes would place the place of its composition in France around the 9th century (v. however, against this, Ferrini, cited in the bibl.).
Interesting in it is the mention of the iudex privatus qui actor Ecclesiarum est, alongside the iudex publicus; the actor Ecclesiarum would be the administrator of large ecclesiastical landed estates endowed with jurisdiction; but this institution was introduced into France even before Charlemagne, whereas in Italy it appeared much later.
Bibliography7 worksF. Schupfer, La l. r. u., in Memorie Accademia dei Lincei, 3rd series, vol. VII, Rome 1881, pp. 47-102; id., Nuovi studi sulla l. r. u., ibi
BIBL.: F. Schupfer, La l. r. u., in Memorie Accademia dei Lincei, 3rd series, vol. VII, Rome 1881, pp. 47-102; id., Nuovi studi sulla l. r. u., ibid., 3rd series, vol. X, ibid. 1882, pp. 179-236; id., Della l. r. u., ibid., 4th series, vol. III, ibid. 1887, pp. 77-160; K. Zeumer, Über Heimat und Alter der Lex romana Rhaetico-Curiensis, in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Germ. Abt., 9 (1888), pp. 1-52; C. Ferrini, Sulla «lex romana utiensis», in Studi dedicati e offerti a F. Schupfer, II, Turin 1893, pp. 113-16 (now in Opere, II, Milan 1929, pp. 495-66); G. L. Zanetti, La legge romana retica coirese o udinese, Milan 1899; E. Besta, Fonti : legislazione e scienza giuridica, Milan 1923, pp. 266-71.
Rota, Antonio. “Legge Romana Udinese.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1067. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/legge-romana-udinese.
MLA
Rota, Antonio. “Legge Romana Udinese.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1067. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/legge-romana-udinese.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec7_legge_romana_udinese,
author = {Rota, Antonio},
title = {Legge Romana Udinese},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1067},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/legge-romana-udinese}
}
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