Legislation and Jurisprudence
During his reign, the emperor paid much attention to the judicial system. He presided over many trials, and, often, in making decisions, not always followed the letter of the law. To improve the judicial system, in order to reduce the queue of pending cases, Claudius increased during summer and winter sessions, during which the courts worked. He also issued a law prohibiting the plaintiffs to leave the city during the consideration of their cases. This has the effect - the courts to make money fast. As a measure that increases the authority of the courts, the emperor has increased the age limit of judges to 25 years.
His intervention emperor stopped many stuffy conflicts that smoldered in the Roman provinces. Thus, at the very beginning of his reign, he allowed the confrontation between Greeks and Jews in Alexandria, which brought the case before the massacre and insurrection, suppressed by the Romans. Immediately after the uprising, the emperor sent two embassies, one from each national groups. The result was the famous "Letter to the Alexandrians," which confirmed the right of Jews in the city, but to restrict the Alexandrian citizenship for new arrivals. Another decree of Claudius established the rights of Jews in the entire state.
Then Claudius dismissed Rhodes from the power of Rome, ruling that the islanders are so loyal to Rome, that they deserve the government under the protectorate of Rome, as a "Friend of the Senate and People of Rome". At the same time the tax was osvobzhdena Troy.
Claudius is also personally involved in cases dealing with Roman citizenship. He severely punished those who dared to illegally usurped it. However, when his investigators learned that a large group of residents of Trento, who were considered citizens, are not, ordered to leave everything as is, noting that the deprivation of their citizenship status and subsequent punishment will cause a much bigger problem than the recognition by Rome of their rights to citizenship. At the same time freed illegally assigned themselves to the riders, cruelly sold into slavery again.
During his reign, Claudius had issued a large number of studies concerning almost all aspects of life in Roman society - from the teachings of morality to medical advice. Some of them have acquired the status of imperial edicts, such as a decree that freed those slaves who were dying by the masters in the temple of Aesculapius, and there have been cured. Earlier hozyava could demand cured slave back. Furthermore, those employers who refused servant in care, is now accused of murder.
Among the medical research Claudius most fun are the tips to take the juice tissovogo tree bites of poisonous snakes, as well as the inference that the public flatulence improves health.