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THE edict of the curule aediles, The aediles, and some other magistrates, issued an edict, or proclamation, at the beginning of their term of office, relating to the matters over which they had jurisdiction. When successive officials adopted and announced the same body of rules (edictum tralaticium), the edict assumed a more or less permanent form and became practically a code of laws. in the section containing stipulations about the purchase of slaves, reads as follows: F.J.R. p. 214; cf. Hor. Epist. ii. 2. 1 ff. See to it that the sale ticket of each slave be so written that it can be known exactly what disease or defect each one has, which one is a runaway or a vagabond, or is still under condemnation for some offence.
