Julius Paulus Prudentissimus

Julius Paul was a Roman jurist and Praetorian prefect under Emperor Severus Alexander.

Among the teachers of Paul probably heard Papinian. Paul was active during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus and Caracalla. Maybe he was the father of Elagabal first wife Julia Paula. Anyway, he was expelled after the divorce of the Emperor of this country. However Elagabal successor Severus Alexander Paul brought back from exile and took him into his senior staff ( Consilium ). About his life data is only known that he survived his contemporaries Ulpian.

Paul has published many and extensive works on very different legal topics. In the Florentine Index Paul attributed multivolume 24 and beyond 47 -volume works. Of these, not all get on but it was taken in later publications by other authors as well as in summary publications are referenced. Among the multi-volume works ad Edictum is considered his most extensive publication, which extends over 80 books. Due to its concise, highly compressed formulations him are attributed as named in the Florentine Index works, other publications. In ancient times, the Paul were also attributed to the five books of the Sententiae Receptae, which have been preserved, especially in the Breviarium Alaric. This document is expected according to recent findings but hardly come from Paul, but by an unknown author, who flourished about 295 AD in the province of Africa.

Centuries later, his writings had so great authority, that the Emperor Theodosius II and Valentinian III. him in her Zitiergesetz from the year 426, together with Gaius, Papinian, Ulpian and Modestinus, appointed one of the five jurists whose opinion of the judiciary in cases to be decided should be followed.