History of Canon Law: Sources and Institutions

“reliquos uero dementes uesanosque iudicantes haeretici dogmatis infamiam sustinere, diuina primum uindicta, post etiam motus nostri, quem ex caelesti arbitrio sumpserimus, ultione plectendos.”

"...but as for the rest, since we judge them to be demented and insane, they shall bear the infamy of heretical dogma; they are to be struck first by divine vengeance, and afterward by the punishment of our own authority, which we have claimed from heavenly judgment." Edict of Thessalonika 380 AD

"Cunctos populos quos clementiae nostrae regit temperamentum, in tali uolumus religione uersari.”

"We desire that all the peoples whom the moderation of our clemency rules should live in such a religion..." Edict of Thessalonika, 380 AD

“Sane si quis per compromissum ad similitudinem arbitrorum apud Iudaeos vel patriarchas ex consensu partium in civili dumtaxat negotio putaverint litigandum, sortiri eorum iudicium iure publico non vetentur: eorum etiam sententias provinciarum iudices exequantur, tamquam ex sententia cognitoris arbitri fuerint adtributi.”

"If any persons, in the manner of arbitrators, should decide to litigate before the Jews or the Patriarchs by the mutual consent of the parties and in civil matters only, they shall not be forbidden by public law to seek their judgment. Furthermore, the judges of the provinces shall execute their decisions just as if they had been appointed as arbitrators by the ruling of a [Roman] judge." Theodisian Code 398 AD

“delictum personae non debet redundare in detrimentum
Ecclesiae.”

"The crime of an individual person should not redound to the detriment of the Church."

“ut hac tantum compilatione universi utantur in iudiciis et in
scholis.”

"...so that everyone may use this compilation alone, both in the courts and in the schools." X 1234

“circa bullarum pontificiarum receptionem.”

"Concerning the reception of papal bulls."

“contra evocationes et peregrina judicia.”

"Against the removal of cases [to outside courts] and foreign judgments."