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The Paper deals with the Legislation of the Roman emperor Gratian concerning the Jews, and is part of a larger Investigation about the legal Condition of the Jews in Late Antiquity. The three laws, CTh. 12.1.100, CTh.12.1.99 and CTh.16.7.3, deal with the problem of the obligation of fulfillment of the curial burdens by the Jews and the possibility of contesting, within five years, the wills of those Christians who were suspected of having converted to Judaism in their life. The laws of Gratian are highly restrictive of Jewish worship freedom, even if it is not possible to say that they have been properly anti-Jewish laws. However, with this research is possible to understand how the Emperor and Christian Emperors generally acted for the preservation and defense of the Christian religion, the only one considered valiant by the Roman Christian Empire