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See also:ULPIAN (DoMrrIus ULPIANUS) , See also:Roman jurist, was of Tyrian ancestry. The See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time and See also:place of his See also:birth are unknown, but the See also:period of his See also:literary activity was between A.D. 211 and 222. He made his first See also:appearance in public See also:life as See also:assessor in the auditorium of See also:Papinian and member of the See also:council of Septimius See also:Severus; under See also:Caracalla he was See also:master of the See also:requests (magi: ter libellorum). See also:Heliogabalus banished him from See also:Rome, but on the See also:accession of See also:Alexander (222) he was reinstated, and finally became the See also:emperor's See also:chief adviser and praefectus praetorio. His curtailment of the privileges granted to the praetorian guard by Heliogabalus provoked their enmity, and he narrowly escaped their vengeance; ultimately, in 228, he was murdered in the See also:palace, in the course of a See also:riot between the soldiers and the See also:mob.
His See also:works include Ad Sabinum, a commentary on the See also:jus civile, in over 50 books; Ad edictum, a commentary on the See also:Edict, in 83 books; collections of opinions, responses and disputations; books of rules and institutions; See also:treatises on the functions of the different magistrates—one of them, the De officio proconsulis libri x., being a comprehensive exposition of the criminal See also:law ; monographs on various statutes, on testamentary See also:trusts, and a variety of other works. His writings altogether have supplied to Justinian's See also:Digest about a third of its contents, and his commentary on the Edict alone about a fifth. As an author he is characterized by doctrinal exposition of a high See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, judiciousness of See also:criticism, and lucidity of arrangement, See also:style and See also:language.
Domitii Ulpiani fragmenta, consisting of 29 titles, were first edited by Tilius (See also:Paris, 1549). Other See also:editions are by See also:Hugo (See also:Berlin, 1834), Bocking (See also:Bonn, 1836), containing fragments of the first See also:book of the Institutiones discovered by Endlicher at See also:Vienna in 1835, and in See also:Girard's Textes de See also:droit romain (Paris, 189o).
End of Article: ULPIAN (DoMrrIus ULPIANUS)
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