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Encyclopedia > List of Roman laws

This is an attempted alphabetical List of Roman laws. The name of the law is usually the gens of the legislator, declined on the female form (because in Latin law - lex, plural leges - is a word with female gender). When a law is the initiative of the two consuls, 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. In the Roman naming convention used in ancient Rome, male names typically contain three proper nouns which are classified as praenomen (or given name), nomen gentile (or Gens name) and cognomen. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... For modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. ...


See also: Roman law, Twelve Tables Roman Law is the legal system of ancient Rome. ... The Law of the Twelve Tables (Lex Duodecim Tabularum, more informally simply Duodecim Tabulae) were the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. ...


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Roman laws

  • Lex Acilia de intercalando (191 BC) - adjustment of the calendar
  • Lex Acilia repetundarum (123 BC) - repetundae procedures
  • Lex Acilia Calpurnia (67 BC) - permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption
  • Lex Aebutia de magistratibus extraordinariis (154 BC?) - proposer of extra-ordinary magistracy cannot hold it
  • Lex Aebutia de formulis(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 Aelia et Fufia (c. 150 BC?) - two laws probably regulating auspices
  • Lex Aelia Sentia (AD 4) - manumissions of slaves
  • Lex Aemilia - distribution of freedmen among tribes
  • Lex Antonia de Termessibus - alliance with Termessus
  • Leges Antoniae - measures of Mark Antony against dictatorship etc
  • Lex Appuleia - measures of Saturninus, 103 BC and 100 BC
  • Lex Aquilia (possibly 286 BC, at least before 3rd century BC)
  • Lex Aternia-Tarpeia (454 BC) - maximum fines
  • Lex Atinia (149 BC) – Tribunes of the plebs automatically promoted to the senate
  • Lex Aufeia - settlement of Asia c. 124 BC
  • Lex Aurelia de tribunicia potestate (75 BC)
  • Lex Aurelia iudiciaria (70 BC)
  • Lex Baebia - number of praetors
  • Lex Calpurnia (149 BC) – Establishes a permanent extortion court
  • Lex Canuleia (149 BC) – Allows patricians and plebeians to intermarry
  • Lex Cassia (137 BC) – Introduces secret votes in court jury decisions
  • Lex Claudia (218 BC) – Prohibits senators from participating in overseas trade
  • Lex citationis (AD 426); during the proceedings only five Roman lawers could be cited
  • Lex Cornelia Annalis (81 BC); A sanction law for Sulla's past acts, part of his program to strengthen the Senate.
  • Lex Domitia de sacerdotis (104 BC) – Establishes election of pontifex maximus, 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 (2 BC); limitation of manumissions
  • Lex Gabinia (139 BC) – Introduces secret votes in election for magistrate offices
  • Lex Genucia (342 BC) – No man can hold the same office before 10 years have elapsed from the first election
  • Lex Gellia Cornelia (72 BC); consuls of this year authorized Pompey to confer Roman citizenship to the deserving. Pompey's clientela and Spaniards were the beneficiaries
  • Lex Hieronica (240 BC) – Taxation of Sicily
  • Lex Hortensia (287 BC) – Plebiscites approved by the Assembly of the People gain the status of law
  • Lex Hadriana (?); Hadrian's law that enabled permanent tenants to develop land, it was an extension of the Lex Marciana
  • 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 won't marry were debarred from receiving inheritances and from attending public games
  • Leges Juliae (18 BC) – Regarding marriage
  • Lex Julia de Repetundis (59 BC) – Regarding extortion in the provinces
  • Lex Iulia Municipalis (45 BC); Set regulations for the Italian municipalities.
  • Lex Iunia Norbana (c.19 BC) – Regarding status of freedmen
  • Lex Licinia Sextia (367 BC) – Resumes consulship, requires plebeian as a consul. Aka Leges Liciniae Sextiae
  • Lex Licinia Pompeia (55 BC) - Pompey and Crassus set forth to prolong Caesar's proconsulship in both the Gauls for another 5 years.
  • Lex Marciana (around Flavian dynasty); dealt with imperial and private cases in North Africa, regulated relations between cultivators and the proprietors
  • Lex Manilia (66 BC) – Pompey's actions against Mithridates
  • Lex Maenia (after 293 BC); plebeian achievement, it carried the principle of Lex Pubilia to elections
  • Lex de Maiestate (?); treason law passed by Sulla to regulate the activities of pro-magistrates in their provinces, especiallly unapproved war and unauthorized travel
  • Lex Maenai Sestia (452 BC); scale for fines, 1 ox = 12 sheep = 100 lb. of bronze
  • Lex Ogulnia (300 BC) – The priesthoods are open to plebeians
  • Lex Oppia (215 BC) – Limited female adornment
  • Lex Ovinia (318 BC) – Allowed ex-magistrates to become Senators
  • Lex Papiria Julia (430 BC); made payment of fines in bronze mandatory
  • Lex Papia Poppaea (AD 9) – Regarding marriage
  • Lex Petronia (?); concerning slaves
  • 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 Plautia Papiria (89 BC) – Granted citizenship to Roman allies
  • Lex Plautia Judiciaria (?); chose jurors from other classes, not just the Equites
  • Lex Poetelia (313 BC) – Regarding debt-slavery
  • Lex Pompeia (89 BC) – Regarding citizenship rights in Gaul
  • 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's legions from Macedon to the new provinces.
  • Lex Plautia de Reditu Lepidanorum (70 BC); granted a pardon to Lepidus' former associates
  • Leges provinciae (146 BC) – a set of laws designed to regulate and organize the administration of Roman provinces
  • Lex Publilia (339 BC) – Restricted patrum auctoritas
  • 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
  • Leges Semproniae Agrariae (133 BC); Redistribution of the land among the poor
  • 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 Rubria (122 BC) – Authorized a colony on the ruins of Carthage
  • Lex Roscia (49 BC); Caesar proposed, full Latin Rights on the people of Transalpine Gaul.
  • Lex Romana Burgundionum; one of the law tables for Romans after the fall of Western Roman Empire
  • Lex Romana Visigothorum (AD 506); one of the law tables for Romans after the fall of Western Roman Empire
  • Leges Semproniae agrariae (133 BC) – Set of laws issued by Tiberius Gracchus to redistribute land among the poor; repealed after his assassination
  • Lex Titia (43 BC) – Gives Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus full powers to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar; legalizes the second triumvirate
  • Lex Terentia Cassia (73 BC); Safeguarded the grain supply of Rome and distributed grain at reduced rates
  • Lex Trebonia (55 BC) – Organization of the provinces
  • Lex Vatinia (59 BC); Gave Julius Caesar governorship of Cisalpine Gaul and of Illyricum for five years.
  • 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 Cornelia (AD 5) – 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 Villia annalis (180 BC) – Established minimum ages for the cursus honorum offices; determined an interval of two years between offices
  • Lex Voconia (169 BC) – Women no longer can be the main heir to a dead man estate, including cases were there are no male relative alive

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Bust of Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N¹) (ca. ... Roman emperor Iulius Saturninus (died 280) was a Gaul by birth (others have him as a Moor) and was a friend of the emperor Probus. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 108 BC 107 BC 106 BC 105 BC 104 BC - 103 BC - 102 BC 101 BC... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC - 100s BC - 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC Years: 105 BC 104 BC 103 BC 102 BC 101 BC - 100 BC - 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC 96 BC 95... The Lex Aquilia was a Roman law that was possibly passed in 286 BC, or at some other point in the 3rd century BC. It was concerned with damage done from damnum iniuria datum, unjust done damage, a kind of a tort law (albeit with differences from tort as known... 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The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 129 BC 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC 125 BC - 124 BC - 123 BC 122 BC... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 80 BC 79 BC 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC - 75 BC - 74 BC 73 BC 72... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 75 BC 74 BC 74 BC 73 BC 72 BC 71 BC 70 BC 69 BC 68... 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Bust of Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (Latin: M·ANTONIVS·M·F·M·N¹) (ca. ... Marcus Aemilius Lepidus was a common name for several successive generations of a family in ancient Rome: Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (187 BC) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (49 BC) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Bust of Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ... The term triumvirate (Latin for rule by three men) or troika in Russian, is commonly used to describe an alliance between three equally powerful political or military leaders. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC - 70s BC - 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC Years: 78 BC 77 BC 76 BC 75 BC 74 BC - 73 BC - 72 BC 71 BC 70... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC Years: 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC 54 BC 53 BC 52... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC - 50s BC - 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC Years: 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC 56... Bust of Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (Classical Latin: IMP·C·IVLIVS·CAESAR·DIVVS¹) (b. ... 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General denominations

  • Lex agraria – A law regulating distribution of public lands
  • Lex annalis - qualifications for magistracies
  • 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

Special laws

  • Senatus consultum – A Senate decree
  • Senatus consultum ultimum - A "final decree of the Senate"
  • Senatus consultum Silanianum (AD 10)- concerning slaves
  • Senatus consultum Claudianum (AD 52)- concerning slaves
  • Senatus consultum de re publica defenda (see note 1) – Literally Senate decree for the defence of the Republic. Issued by the senate in cases of extreme peril for the republic, usually to deal with internal political violence. The first decree was issued in 121 BC, due to riots provoked by Gaius Gracchus.
  • Twelve Tables – The first set of Roman laws published by the Decemviri 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.
  • Constitutio Antoniniana - granted citizenship to the Empire's freemen

The Roman Senate (Latin, Senatus) was a deliberative body which was important in the government of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. ... A Senatus consultum ultimum (Ultimate decree of the Senate), or more properly, senatus consultum de re publica defendenda (Decree of the Senate on defending the Republic) was a decree of the Roman Senate during the late Roman Republic passed in times of emergency. ... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 126 BC 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC - 121 BC - 120 BC 119 BC... Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (Latin: C·SEMPRONIVS·TI·F·P·N·GRACCVS) (154 BC-121 BC) was a Roman politician of the 2nd century BC. He was the younger brother of Tiberius Gracchus and, like him, pursued a popular political agenda that eventually got him killed by the conservative faction of... The Law of the Twelve Tables (Lex Duodecim Tabularum, more informally simply Duodecim Tabulae) were the ancient legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. ... Decemviri (sing. ... Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC Years: 456 BC 455 BC 454 BC 453 BC 452 BC - 451 BC - 450 BC 449 BC... Constitutio Antoniniana - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

Notes

  • Note 1 – The word Republic derives from the Latin res publica (literally, public thing). The Romans often wrote the two words as one, respublica and inflected both words.

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List of Roman laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1544 words)
This is an attempted alphabetical List of Roman laws.
The name of the law is usually the gens of the legislator, declined on the female form (because in Latin law - lex, plural leges - is a word with female gender).
When a law is the initiative of the two consuls, is given the name of the two, with the senior consul gens signalled first.
Lex Aquilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (165 words)
The Lex Aquilia was a Roman law that was possibly passed in 286 BC, or at some other point in the 3rd century BC.
It was concerned with damage done from damnum iniuria datum, "unjust done damage", a kind of a tort law (albeit with differences from tort as known in modern common law systems).
LacusCurtius • Roman Law — Damnum (Smith's Dictionary, 1875), Damnum Injuria Datum section.
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