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This is a partial list of Roman laws. The name of the law is usually the gens of the legislator, declined on the feminine form (because in Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 law - lex, plural leges - is a word with feminine gender). When a law is the initiative of the two consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
s, is given the name of the two, with the senior consul gens signalled first. Sometimes, a short description of the content of the law is added. Some laws listed have been made after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but they were heavily influenced by Roman laws that were made before.








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This is a partial list of Roman laws. The name of the law is usually the gens of the legislator, declined on the feminine form (because in Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 law - lex, plural leges - is a word with feminine gender). When a law is the initiative of the two consul
Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
s, is given the name of the two, with the senior consul gens signalled first. Sometimes, a short description of the content of the law is added. Some laws listed have been made after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but they were heavily influenced by Roman laws that were made before.

Roman laws

  • Lex Acilia Calpurnia
    Lex Acilia Calpurnia

    Lex Acilia Calpurnia was a law established during the Roman Republic in 67 BC mandating permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption....
     (67 BC) permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption
  • Lex Acilia de intercalando
    Lex Acilia de intercalando

    Lex Acilia de intercalando was a law established in ancient Rome in 191 BC.Introduced by the consul M. Acilius, this law probably authorized the pontifices to decree an intercalation in order to prevent seasonal drift in the pre-Julian lunar calendar....
     (191 BC) adjustment of the calendar
  • Lex Acilia repetundarum
    Lex Acilia repetundarum

    Lex Acilia Repetundarum was a law established in ancient Rome in 123 BC.It provides for equites as jurors in courts overseeing senatorial class to prevent corruption abroad....
     (123 BC) repetundae procedures for jurors in courts overseeing senatorial class to prevent corruption abroad
  • Lex Aebutia de formulis
    Lex Aebutia de formulis

    Lex Aebutia de formulis was a law established in ancient Rome in around 150 BC, though the date is quite uncertain.Introduced by the magistrate Sextus Aelius, this law greatly expanded the number of civil actions under the jurisdiction of the praetor....
     (c. 150 BC) authorized praetor's discretion to be introduced into the court of the praetor urbanus, praetor able to remodel private law of Rome
  • Lex Aebutia de magistratibus extraordinariis
    Lex Aebutia de magistratibus extraordinariis

    Lex Aebutia de magistratibus extraordinariis was a law established in ancient Rome during the early 2nd century BC, though the date remains uncertain....
     (154 BC?) proposer of extra-ordinary magistracy cannot hold it
  • Lex Aelia et Fufia
    Lex Aelia et Fufia

    Lex Aelia et Fufia were laws established in ancient Rome around the year 150 BC. The presumed subject of this legislation was the extension of the right of "obnuntiatio", that is, reporting unfavorably concerning the omens observed at the Legislative Assemblies, thus forcing an end to public business until the next lawful day....
     (c. 150 BC?) two laws probably regulating auspices
  • Lex Aelia Sentia
    Lex Aelia Sentia

    Lex Aelia Sentia was a law established in ancient Rome in 4 AD. It was one of the laws that the Roman assemblies had to pass . This law , has made limitations on Status in Roman legal system....
     (AD 4
    4

    Year 4 was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
    ) manumissions of slave
    Slavery

    Slavery is a form of forced labor where a person is compelled to Labor for another . Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive Remuneration in return for their labor....
    s
  • Lex Aemilia distribution of freedmen among tribes
  • Lex Aemilia De Censoribus (c. 433 BC) reduced the terms of censors to a year and a half
  • Lex Ampia (64 BC) allowed Pompey
    Pompey

    Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
     to wear the crown of bay at the Ludi Circenses
  • Lex Antonia de Termessibus (72 BC) alliance with Termessus
  • Leges Antoniae measures of Mark Antony
    Mark Antony

    Marcus Antonius , known in English as Marc Antony, was a Roman Republic politician and General. He was an important supporter and the best friend of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesar's second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia....
     against dictatorship etc
  • Lex Apuleia gave a surety
    Surety

    A surety is a person who agrees to be responsible for the debt or obligation of another. Furthermore, a surety is also a "security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond."...
     the right to take action against his co-sureties for whatever he paid above his share
  • Lex Apuleia Agraria (103 BC and 100 BC) measures of the tribune
    Tribune

    Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
     Saturninus
    Saturninus

    Saturninus may refer to:* Lucius Appuleius Saturninus , populares* Lucius Antonius Saturninus , provincial governor and rebel against Domitian...
  • Lex Aquilia
    Lex Aquilia

    The lex Aquilia was a Roman law which provided compensation to the owners of property injured by someone's fault....
     (possibly 286 BC, at least before 3rd century BC) provided compensation to the owners of property injured by someone's fault
  • Lex Aternia-Tarpeia (454 BC) allowed magistrates to fine citizens, but set maximum fines
  • Lex Atilia Marcia (312 BC) empowered the people to elect sixteen Military Tribunes
    Tribune

    Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
     for each of four legions
  • Lex Atinia (149 BC) Tribunes of the plebs
    Tribune

    Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
     automatically promoted to the senate
    Roman Senate

    The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
  • Lex Atinia de usucapione (197 BC or 149 BC) dealing with ownership
  • Lex Aufeia settlement of Asia c. 124 BC
  • Lex Aufidia de ambitu (61 BC) candidate who promises money and does not pay it should be unpunished
  • Lex Aurelia de tribunicia potestate (75 BC)
  • Lex Aurelia iudiciaria (70 BC) judices should be chosen from senator
    Roman Senate

    The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
    s, equites and tribuni aerarii
    Tribune

    Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
  • Lex Baebia
    Lex Baebia

    Lex Baebia was one of many laws enacted during the Roman Republic to combat 'ambitus' in the electoral process.There is some confusion over the exact nature of this law; whether it was indeed a single law or two....
     (192 BC) set number of praetors to alternate, but was never observed
  • Lex Caecilia De Censoria
    Lex Caecilia De Censoria

    Lex Caecilia De Censoria was passed by Metellus Scipio, Roman Consul of 52 BC. It repealed a law passed by the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher in 58 BC, which had prescribed certain rules for the Censors in exercising their functions as inspectors of public morals ....
     (54 BC) repealed a law passed by the tribune
    Tribune

    Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
     Clodius
    Publius Clodius Pulcher

    Publius Clodius Pulcher , was a Roman Republic politician of the Populares cause, who passed several significant laws but was chiefly remembered for his feuds with Titus Annius Milo and Marcus Tullius Cicero and for his introduction of the grain dole....
     in 58 BC, which had regulated the Censors
  • Lex Caecilia De Vectigalibus (62 BC) released lands and harbors in Italy from the payment of taxes
  • Lex Caecilia Didia
    Lex Caecilia Didia

    Brief Summary Lex Caecilia Didia was a law that was put into effect by the Consuls Q. Caecilius Metellus Nepos and Titus Didius in the year 98 BCE....
     (98 BC) Required laws to proposed at least three market days before any vote. Also forbade Omnibus bill
    Omnibus bill

    An Omnibus bill is a single document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislature but contains laws to a number of other laws or even many entirely new laws....
    s, which are bills with a large amount of unrelated material.
  • Lex Calpurnia
    Lex Calpurnia

    Lex Calpurnia was a law established in 149 BC by Tribune Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi . According to this law, a permanent court with a praetor who observed provincial governors has been established....
     (149 BC) establishes a permanent extortion court
  • Lex Canuleia
    Lex Canuleia

    The Lex Canuleia is a law of the Roman Republic passed in the year 445 BC. Named after the tribune Gaius Canuleius, who proposed it, it abolished a corresponding prohibition in the Twelve Tables, allowing marriage between patricians and plebss, with children inheriting the father's class....
     (445 BC) allows patricians and plebeians to intermarry
  • Lex Cassia (137 BC) introduces secret votes in court jury decisions
  • Lex Cassia (104 BC) required any senator to be expelled from the senate if they had been convicted of a crime, or if their power (imperium
    Imperium

    Imperium in a broad sense translates as 'Power '. In ancient Rome the concept applied to people and meant something like 'power status' or 'authority' or could be used with a geographical connotation and meant something like 'territory'....
    ) had been revoked while serving as a magistrate
  • Lex Cassia (44 BC?) allowed Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
     to add new individuals to the patrician
    Patrician

    The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
     (aristocratic) class
  • Lex Cassia Terentia Frumentaria (73 BC) required the distribution of corn among the poor citizens
  • Lex Cincia
    Lex Cincia

    Lex Cincia was a plebiscite passed in 204 BC, and was intended to reform the legal system of the Roman Republic. One provision of this law forbade lawyers from being compensated after pleading a case....
     (204 BC) tort reform
    Tort reform

    Tort reform refers to proposed changes in the civil justice system that would reduce tort litigation or damages. Tort is a system for compensating wrongs and harm done by one party to another's person, property or other protected interests ....
     concerning the payment of lawyers
  • Lex citationis (AD 426
    426

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    ) during court proceedings, only five Roman lawyers could be cited
  • Lex Claudia
    Lex Claudia

    Lex Claudia was a law established in ancient Rome in 218 BC. The law was written by Quintus Claudius, then Tribune of the Plebs, stating that no senator or senator?s son could own a sea-going ship with a capacity of more than 300 amphorae ....
     (218 BC) prohibits senators from participating in overseas trade, obsolete by the time of Cicero
    Cicero

    Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Ancient Rome philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Constitution of the Roman Republic. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest rhetoric and prose stylists....
  • Leges Clodiae
    Leges Clodiae

    Leges Clodiae were a series of laws passed by the Plebeian Council of the Roman Republic under the Tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher in 58 BC....
     (58 BC) a series of laws passed by the tribune
    Tribune

    Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
     Publius Clodius Pulcher
    Publius Clodius Pulcher

    Publius Clodius Pulcher , was a Roman Republic politician of the Populares cause, who passed several significant laws but was chiefly remembered for his feuds with Titus Annius Milo and Marcus Tullius Cicero and for his introduction of the grain dole....
  • Lex Cornelia Annalis (81 BC) a sanction law for Sulla's past acts; part of his program to strengthen the Senate
  • Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis (80 BC) dealing with injuries and deaths obtained by magic
  • Lex Curiata (59 BC) law to enable the Patrician P. Clodius Pulcher to be adopted into the Plebeian gens Fonteia, in order to apply for the popular tribunate
  • Lex Domitia de sacerdotis (104 BC) establishes election of pontifex maximus
    Pontifex Maximus

    The Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the Ancient Rome College of Pontiffs. This was the most important position in the Ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post....
    , until then chosen by the college of priests
  • Lex Fufia (c. 150 BC) substitute with the Lex Aelia in place of the obsolete patrum auctoritas
  • Lex Fufia Caninia
    Lex Fufia Caninia

    In ancient Rome, the lex Fufia Caninia was one of the laws that Roman assemblies had to pass, after they were requested to do so by Caesar Augustus....
     (2 BC) limitation of manumission
    Manumission

    Manumission is the act of freeing individual Slavery, done at the will of the owner....
  • Lex Gabinia
    Lex Gabinia

    The Lex Gabinia was a law established in ancient Rome in 67 BC. Its establishment was a result of the reforms made by Pompey and Crassus during their joint consulship in 70 BC....
     (67 BC) Pompey has special powers in the Mediterranean to fight against pirates
  • Lex Gabinia tabellaria (139 BC) introduces secret votes in election for magistrate offices
  • Lex Gellia Cornelia (72 BC) consuls of this year authorized Pompey
    Pompey

    Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
     to confer Roman citizenship to the deserving. Pompey's clientela and Spaniards were the beneficiaries
  • Leges Genuciae
    Leges Genuciae

    Leges Genuciae were laws proposed in 342 BC by Plebs consul Lucius Genucius.These laws banned lending that carried interest , holding two magistrates at the same time or repeated holding of office within 10 years....
     (342 BC) no man can hold the same office
    Cursus honorum

    The cursus honorum was the Sequence order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire....
     before 10 years have elapsed from the first election
  • Lex Hadriana Hadrian
    Hadrian

    Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
    's law that enabled permanent tenants to develop land, it was an extension of the Lex Marciana
  • Lex Hieronica (240 BC) taxation of Sicily
  • Lex Hortensia
    Lex Hortensia

    In Roman law, Lex Hortensia was the final result of the long class struggle between patricians and plebeians, where the plebeians would periodically secede from the city in protest when they felt the were deprived of their rights....
     (287 BC) plebiscites approved by the Assembly of the People
    Roman assemblies

    The Legislative Assemblies of the Roman Republic were political institutions in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of new Roman laws, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace...
     gain the status of law
  • Lex Icilia (454 BC) gave land to plebeians
  • Lex Iulia (90 BC) brought by consul L. Caesar, offered citizenship to all Italians who had not raised arms against Rome in the Italian War (Social War)
  • Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis (18 BC) made conjugal unfaithfulness a public as well as a private offense, with banishment a possible penalty
  • Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus (18 BC) marrying-age celibates and young widows that would not marry were barred from receiving inheritances and from attending public games
  • Lex Iulia de Repetundis (59 BC) regarding extortion in the provinces
  • Lex Iulia Municipalis (45 BC) set regulations for the Italian municipalities
  • Lex Iunia Norbana
    Lex Iunia Norbana

    In Roman Law, Lex Iunia Norbana was law made to regulate "praetoric Status in Roman legal system". Praetors gave protections to Slavery freed by manumissio inter amicos and manumissio per epistulam, which were not as formal as the civil law states....
     (c. 19 BC) regarding status of freedmen
  • Leges Juliae (18 BC) regarding marriage
  • Lex Licinia Mucia
    Lex Licinia Mucia

    Lex Licinia Mucia was a Roman law established in 95 BC by consuls Lucius Licinius Crassus and Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex. Its purpose was to remove Latins and Italians from the citizen rolls by prosecution of all citizens who falsely claimed to have Roman citizenship....
     (95 BC) removed Latins and Italians from Rome
  • Lex Licinia Pompeia (55 BC) Pompey
    Pompey

    Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
     and Crassus set forth to prolong Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
    's proconsulship in both the Gauls for another 5 years
  • Lex Licinia Sextia
    Lex Licinia Sextia

    Lex Licinia Sextia was a Roman Law passed in 367 BCE and took effect in 366 BCE. It restored the consulship, allegedly reserved one of the two consular positions for a plebeian , and introduced new limits on the possession of conquered land....
     (367 BC) resumes consulship, requires plebeian as a consul; aka Leges Liciniae Sextiae
  • Lex Maenia (after 293 BC) plebeian achievement, it carried the principle of Lex Pubilia to elections
  • Lex Maenia Sestia (452 BC) scale for fines, 1 ox = 12 sheep = 100 lb. of bronze
  • Lex de Maiestate
    Lex de Maiestate

    The Lex Cornelia de Maiestate was a Roman law passed by Sulla during his dictatorship from 81 BC to 80 BC using the Tribune Cornelius.The Law, relating to the control of Roman_Governor and their forces in the Roman_province stated, among other things, that a governor could not leave his province during his time in office, with or without his...
     treason law passed by Sulla to regulate the activities of pro-magistrates in their provinces, especially unapproved war and unauthorized travel
  • Lex Manilia
    Lex Manilia

    The Lex Manilia was a law established in 66 BC.Instituted by the Tribune Gaius Manilius one year after the passage of the Lex Gabinia, it gave Pompey supreme command in the war against Mithridates, in place of Lucius Licinius Lucullus....
     (66 BC) Pompey's actions against Mithridates
  • Lex Marciana (around Flavian dynasty) dealt with imperial and private cases in North Africa
    North Africa

    North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, separated by the Sahara from Sub-Saharan Africa.Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Northern Africa includes the following seven countries or territories:...
    , regulated relations between cultivators and the proprietors
  • Lex Minucia (216 BC) appointment of three finance commissioners
  • Lex Ogulnia
    Lex Ogulnia

    Lex Ogulnia is one of the results of the long class struggle between patricians and plebeians. This law was named after tribune Quintus Ogulnius Gallus....
     (300 BC) the priesthoods are open to plebeians
  • Lex Oppia
    Lex Oppia

    The Lex Oppia was a law established in ancient Rome in 215 BC, at the height of the Second Punic War during the days of national catastrophe after the Battle of Cannae....
     (215 BC) limited female adornment
  • Lex Ovinia (318 BC) allowed ex-magistrates to become senators
  • Les Papia de Peregrinis (65 BC) challenged false claims of citizenship and deported foreigners from Rome
  • Lex Papia Poppaea
    Lex Papia Poppaea

    The Lex Papia Poppaea was a Roman law introduced in AD 9 to encourage and strengthen marriage. It included provisions against adultery and celibacy and complemented and supplemented Augustus' Lex Julia de Maritandis Ordinibus of 18 BC and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis of 17 BC....
     (AD 9
    9

    Year 9 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
    ) regarding marriage
  • Lex Papiria de dedicationibus
    Lex Papiria de dedicationibus

    Lex Papiria de dedicationibus was a law established in ancient Rome in around 304 BC, though the date is uncertain.According to Cicero, it was an old law introduced by the tribunes that forbade the dedication of a temple, and for religious purposes, or of an altar without permission of the Roman assemblies....
     (c. 304 BC) forbade consecration of real property without approval of the popular assembly
  • Lex Papiria Julia (430 BC) made payment of fines in bronze mandatory
  • Lex de Permutatione Provinciae (44 BC) Marcus Antonius set this law which gave him a five year's command in Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul in lieu of Macedon. Also gave authorization to transfer Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
    's legions from Macedon to the new provinces.
  • Lex Petronia concerning slaves
  • Lex Plautia de Reditu Lepidanorum (70 BC) granted a pardon to Lepidus' former associates
  • Lex Plautia Judiciaria chose jurors from other classes, not just the Equites
  • Lex Plautia Papiria
    Lex Plautia Papiria

    The Lex Plautia Papiria was a Rome plebiscite enacted amidst the Social War in 89 BCE. Sponsored by the Tribune , M. Plautius Silvanus and C....
     (89 BC) granted citizenship to Roman allies
  • Lex Poetelia Papiria
    Lex Poetelia Papiria

    The Lex Poetelia Papiria was a law passed in Ancient Rome that abolished the contractual form of Nexum, or debt bondage. Livy dates the law in 326 BC, during the third Roman consul of Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus, whereas...
     (326 BC) regarding debt-slavery
    Nexum

    Nexum was a debt bondage contract in Ancient Rome where the debtor pledged his person as collateral should he default on his loan. It was abolished by the Lex Poetelia Papiria in 326 BC....
  • Lex Porcia (I) (199 BC) proposed by tribune P. Porcius Laeca to give right of appeal in capital cases
  • Lex Porcia (II) (195 BC) M. Porcius Cato prohibited scourging of citizens without appeal
  • Lex Porcia (III) (184 BC) consul L. Porcius Licinus safeguarded citizens from summary execution on military service, all dealing with right of appeal (provocatio)
  • Lex Pompeia (89 BC) regarding citizenship rights in Gaul
  • Leges provinciae
    Leges provinciae

    The ' were sets of laws first enacted in 146 B.C. designed to aid in the regulation and administration of the Roman provinces. Written specifically for each Roman province, the was drafted by the victorious general with the help of a commission of ten ', or advisors, whom were usually of senatorial rank....
     (146 BC) a set of laws designed to regulate and organize the administration of Roman provinces
  • Lex Publilia (339 BC) restricted patrum auctoritas
  • Lex Pupia (72/61 BC) Senate could not meet on Comitiales Dies
  • Lex Romana Burgundionum one of the law tables for Romans after the fall of Western Roman Empire
  • Lex Romana Visigothorum (AD 506
    506

    Events...
    ) one of the law tables for Romans after the fall of Western Roman Empire
  • Lex Roscia (49 BC) Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
     proposed, full Latin Rights on the people of Transalpine Gaul
  • Lex Roscia theatralis
    Lex Roscia theatralis

    The lex Roscia theatralis was a Roman law dated to 67 BC. It reserved 14 rows in the theater to members of the Equestrian order....
     (67 BC) allocated a place in Roman theaters to the equestrian order
  • Lex Rubria (122 BC) authorized a colony on the ruins of Carthage
  • Lex Sacrata (494 BC) law after first secession of the plebeians that either affirmed the sacrosanctity of the tribunes or established the plebeians as a sworn confederacy against patricians
  • Lex Scantinia
    Lex Scantinia

    Lex Scantinia was an ancient Roman law and introduced in 149 BCE during the Roman Republic that regulated sexual behavior, including pederasty, adultery and passivity, potentially legislating the death penalty for same-sex behavior among free-born men....
     (c. 149 BC) a law possibly regulating sexual behavior, including pederasty, adultery and passivity
  • Leges Semproniae Agrariae (133 BC) set of laws issued by Tiberius Gracchus
    Tiberius Gracchus

    Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus was a Ancient Rome politician of the 2nd century BC and brother of Gaius Gracchus. As a tribune, he caused political turmoil in the Roman Republic by his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms....
     to redistribute land among the poor; repealed after his assassination
  • Lex Servilia Caepio (106 BC) some control of the court de rebus repentundis was handed back to senators from the equites
  • Lex Servilia Glaucia (100 BC?) provided allotments for veterans on land in southern Gaul
  • Lex Terentia Cassia (73 BC) safeguarded Rome's grain supply and distributed grain at reduced rates
  • Lex Titia
    Lex Titia

    The Lex Titia was a Roman law passed on November 27, 43 BC, that granted triumvirates the right to rule for a period of five years. It is commonly known as the law that formalized and legalized the second triumvirate of Augustus, Mark Antony and Lepidus ....
     (43 BC) gave Octavian, Mark Antony
    Mark Antony

    Marcus Antonius , known in English as Marc Antony, was a Roman Republic politician and General. He was an important supporter and the best friend of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesar's second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia....
     and Lepidus full powers to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
    ; legalized the second triumvirate
    Triumvirate

    The term triumvirate is commonly used to describe a political regime dominated by three powerful individuals. The arrangement can be formal or informal, and though the three are usually equal on paper, in reality this is rarely the case....
  • Lex Trebonia
    Lex Trebonia

    The Lex Trebonia was passed in 55 BC during the Consulship of Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pompey. The Law ensured that, through the Tribune Trebonius, Crassus received the province of Syria for 5 years in order to pursue personal motivation to begin an invasion of Parthia....
     (55 BC) organization of the provinces
  • Lex Tullia (63 BC) passed by Cicero
    Cicero

    Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Ancient Rome philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Constitution of the Roman Republic. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest rhetoric and prose stylists....
     in his consulship to regulate election fraud (see ambitus
    Ambitus

    Ambitus, among ancient Rome, signified the act of lawsuit, or making interest for candidates of offices.The candidates went about the city and into public places and assembles, to beg voices, which was called ambitus; am in the ancient Latin language, signifying circum , and ire ....
    )
  • Lex Valeria (maybe in 509 BC and 449 BC or 300 BC) it granted every Roman citizen legal right to appeal against a capital sentence, defined and confirmed the right of appeal (provocatio)
  • Lex Valeria (82 BC) appointed Sulla dictator
  • Lex Valeria Cornelia (AD 5
    5

    Year 5 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar....
    ) regarding voting in the Comitia Centuriata
  • Leges Valeria Horatiae (449 BC) regarding the rights of the plebs
  • Leges Valeria Publicola (449 BC) grants the right to appeal to the People of any decision of magistrates
  • Lex Vatinia (59 BC) gave Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
     governorship of Cisalpine Gaul and of Illyricum for five years
  • Lex Villia annalis (180 BC) established minimum ages for the cursus honorum
    Cursus honorum

    The cursus honorum was the Sequence order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire....
     offices; determined an interval of two years between offices
  • Lex Voconia
    Lex Voconia

    Lex Voconia was a law established in ancient Rome in 169 BC.Introduced by Q. Voconius Saxa with support from Cato the Elder, Voconius being tribune of the people in that year, this law prohibited those who owned property valued at 100,000 asses from making a woman their heir....
     (169 BC) disallowed women from being the main heir to a dead man's estate, including cases were there were no male relatives alive


General denominations


  • Lex Agraria
    Lex Agraria

    The Lex Agraria was a Roman law proposed in 133 BC during the Tribune of Tiberius Gracchus. The law involved the redistribution of public land, previously owned by the Roman Senate, to the lower classes in Ancient Rome, using money bequeathed to Rome in the will of Attalus III of Pergamum to purchase the land and provide resources with which...
     A law regulating distribution of public lands
  • Lex annalis qualifications for magistracies
  • Lex ambitu Laws involving electoral bribery and corruption.
  • Lex Curiata de Imperio Law that Comitia Curiata used to ratify the choice of a new king, also confirmed Octavian's adoption as Caesar's son in 43 BC
  • Lex frumentaria A law regulating price of grain
  • Lex sumptuaria A law regulating the use of luxury items and public manifestations of wealth


The conclusions of the Senate

  • Senatus consultum A Senate
    Roman Senate

    The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
     decree
  • Senatus consultum ultimum
    Senatus consultum ultimum

    Senatus consultum ultimum , more properly senatus consultum de re publica defendenda is the modern term given to a decree of the Roman Senate during the late Roman Republic passed in times of emergency....
     or Senatus consultum de re publica defenda a late republic alternative to nominating a dictator
    Roman dictator

    Dictator was a political office of the Roman Republic. The dictator was above the three branches of government in the constitution of the Roman Republic as no other body or officer could check his power....
  • Senatus consultum Tertullianum concerning inheritance (time of Hadrian
    Hadrian

    Publius Aelius Hadrianus , as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after his apotheosis, known as Hadrian in English language, was Roman Emperor of Roman Empire from AD 117 to 138, as well as a Stoicism and Epicureanism philosopher....
    )
  • Senatus consultum Orphitianum (c. AD 200
    200

    Sorry, no overview for this topic
    ) concerning inheritance
  • Senatus consultum Silanianum (AD 10
    10

    Year 10 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
    ) concerning slaves
  • Senatus consultum Claudianum (AD 52
    52

    Year 52 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
    ) concerning slaves
  • Senatus consultum Macedonianum concerning loan/mutuum (time of Vespasian
    Vespasian

    Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
    )
  • Senatus consultum Neronianum (c. AD 100
    100

    Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
    ) concerning legatum
  • Senatus consultum Pegasianum (c. AD 100
    100

    Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
    ) concerning fideicommissum
  • Senatus consultum Vellaeanum (AD 46
    46

    Year 46 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
    ) concerning intercedere


Other

  • Constitution of the Roman Republic
    Constitution of the Roman Republic

    The Constitution of the Roman Republic or also known as mos maiorum was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent....
     Set the separation of powers and checks and balances of the Roman Republic
  • Acceptilatio
    Acceptilatio

    In Ancient Roman Private law, acceptilatio is defined to be a release by mutual interrogation between debtor and creditor, by which each party is exonerated from the same contract....
     spoken statement of debt or obligation release
  • Constitutio Antoniniana
    Constitutio Antoniniana

    The Constitutio Antoniniana was an edict issued in 212, by the Roman Emperor Caracalla. The law declared that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship and all free women in Empire were given the same rights as Roman women were....
     granted citizenship to the Empire's freemen
  • Corpus Iuris Civilis
    Corpus Juris Civilis

    The Corpus Juris Civilis is the modern name for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperors....
     codification by emperor Justinian
  • Stipulatio
    Stipulatio

    Stipulatio was the basic form of contract in Roman law. It was made in the format of question and answer. The precise nature of the contract was disputed, as can be seen below....
     basic oral contract
    Contract

    A contract is an exchange of promises between two or more parties to do, or refrain from doing, an act which is enforceable in a court of law. It is a binding legal agreement....
  • Twelve Tables
    Twelve Tables

    The Law of the Twelve Tables was the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Law of the Twelve Tables formed the centerpiece of the constitution of the Roman Republic and the core of the mos maiorum....
     The first set of Roman laws published by the Decemviri
    Decemviri

    Decemviri is a Latin term meaning "Ten Men" which designates any such commission in the Roman Republic . Different types of decemvirate include the writing of laws with consul imperium , the judging of litigation , the making of sacrifices , and the distribution of public lands ....
     in 451 BC, which would be the starting point of the elaborate Roman constitution. The twelve tables covered issues of civil, criminal and military law. Every Roman that went to school was supposed to know them by heart.


See also

  • Roman law
    Roman law

    Roman law is the law system of ancient Rome. As used in the West the term commonly refers to legal developments prior to the Roman/Byzantine state's adopting Greek language as its official language in the 7th century....
  • Twelve Tables
    Twelve Tables

    The Law of the Twelve Tables was the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Law of the Twelve Tables formed the centerpiece of the constitution of the Roman Republic and the core of the mos maiorum....
  • Constitution of the Roman Republic
    Constitution of the Roman Republic

    The Constitution of the Roman Republic or also known as mos maiorum was an unwritten set of guidelines and principles passed down mainly through precedent....


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