Habeat unusquisque licentiam sanctissimo Catholicae
(ecclesiae) venerabilique concilio, decedens bonorum quod
optavit relinquere. Cod. Theodos. l. xvi. tit. ii. leg. 4.
This law was published at Rome, A.D. 321, at a time when Constantine might foresee the probability of a rupture with the emperor of the East.