Ka cika wannan furcin: A tarihi, "shari'ar Trajan" tana iya nufin abin da Pliny the Younger ya kwatanta ("Epistulae", VI, 31, shari'a a Centumcellae) ko kuma wanda aka nuna a kan Trajan's Column, inda Trajan yake hukunta shugabannin barbariyawa da aka kama, ko kuma wani zanen da Rogier van der Weyden ya ɓace. (Birnin Brussels ya ba Van der Weyden izinin yin zane-zane hudu na zane-zane na Brussels Town Hall wanda ke nuna 'Justice of Trajan' da kuma 'Justice of Herkenbald'; an hallaka su lokacin da 'yan majalisa suka yi amfani da su a matsayin' yan majalisa.
Faransanci sun harbe birnin a 1695).