77. Cod. Theodos. l. xvi. tit. ii. leg. 20. Godefroy (tom.
vi. p. 49), after the example of Baronius, impartially
collects all that the fathers have said on the subject of
this important law; whose spirit was long afterwards revived
by the emperor Frederic II., Edward I. of England, and other
Christian princes who reigned after the twelfth century.