Ancient and Premodern Regulatory Edicts

Regulation made by the decree of a ruler before the age of modern statute and administrative law, which set prices, wages or trading conduct across a whole realm. The standing example is the Roman emperor Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices of 301, which fixed ceilings for goods, wages and services across the empire. A regulation belongs here when its cited article describes an ancient, medieval or early modern decree that regulates trade, prices or similar economic conduct. It excludes modern statutes and rules, which sit in the group for their own regulatory domain. It sits in this residual subcategory because a general price decree regulates a market as a whole and belongs to none of the financial, competition, privacy, environmental or health fields.