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| | David Johnston, 'The General Influence of Roman Institutions of State and Public Law' (1997) |
 | | As Ulpian says, "a praetor has no imperium over a praetor nor has a consul over a consul" [39], and the solution, where there is an impasse owing to equality of powers, is to seek assistance from the emperor. |
 | | The earliest glossators, applying the statement that the emperor was dominus mundi, Lord of the World [54], to the position of the Italian city-states, reached the conclusion that, as a matter of law, those states must be entirely subject to the power of the emperor, and the emperor must be the sole bearer of imperium. |
 | | But this did not mean power without legal limit, since the medieval lawyers invariably followed, not the view expressed in the Digest that the emperor is not bound by the laws, but the rival assertion in the Code that it is worthy of a ruler to profess himself to be bound by them [56]. |
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