List of Roman Laws - Roman Laws

Roman Laws

• Lex Acilia Calpurnia (67 BC) – permanent exclusion from office in cases of electoral corruption
• Lex Acilia de intercalando (191 BC) – adjustment of the calendar
• Lex Acilia repetundarum (123 BC) – repetundae procedures for jurors in courts overseeing senatorial class to prevent corruption abroad
• 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 Aebutia de magistratibus extraordinariis (154 BC?) – proposer of extraordinary magistracy cannot hold it
• 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 Aemilia De Censoribus (c. 433 BC) – reduced the terms of censors to a year and a half
• Lex Ampia (64 BC) – allowed Pompey 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 against dictatorship etc.
• Lex Apuleia – gave a surety 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 Saturninus
• Lex Aquilia (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 for each of four legions
• Lex Atinia (149 BC) – Tribunes of the plebs automatically promoted to the senate
• 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 senators, equites and tribuni aerarii
• Lex Baebia (192 BC) – set number of praetors to alternate, but was never observed
• Lex Caecilia De Censoria (54 BC) – repealed a law passed by the tribune Clodius in 58 BC, which had regulated the Censors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 (98 BC) – Required laws to proposed at least three market days before any vote. Also forbade Omnibus bills, which are bills with a large amount of unrelated material.
• Lex Calpurnia (149 BC) – establishes a permanent extortion court
• Lex Canuleia (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) had been revoked while serving as a magistrate
• Lex Cassia (44 BC?) – allowed Julius Caesar to add new individuals to the patrician (aristocratic) class
• Lex Cassia Terentia Frumentaria (73 BC) – required the distribution of corn among the poor citizens
• Lex Cincia (204 BC) – tort reform concerning the payment of lawyers
• Lex citationis (AD 426) – during court proceedings, only five Roman lawyers could be cited
• Lex Claudia (218 BC) – prohibits senators from participating in overseas trade, obsolete by the time of Cicero
• Leges Clodiae (58 BC) – a series of laws passed by the tribune Publius Clodius Pulcher
• Lex Cornelia Annalis (81 BC) – a sanction law for Sulla's past acts; part of his program to strengthen the Senate
• Lex Cornelia de maiestate – treason law passed by Sulla to regulate the activities of pro-magistrates in their provinces, especially unapproved war and unauthorized travel
• Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis (80 BC) – dealing with injuries and deaths obtained by magic
• Lex curiata was any law passed by the comitia curiata, including the lex curiata de imperio (following); Roman adoptions, particularly so-called "testamentary adoptions," were also recognized by a lex curiata, famously in 59 BC when the patrician Clodius Pulcher was adopted into a plebeian gens in order to run for the office of tribune of the plebs.
• Lex curiata de imperio – granting imperium to senior Roman magistrates under the Republic. The traditional basis for the later Lex de Imperio allowing Imperial succession.
• 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 manumission
• Lex Gabinia (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 to confer Roman citizenship to the deserving. Pompey's clientela and Spaniards were the beneficiaries
• Leges Genuciae (342 BC) – no man can hold the same office before 10 years have elapsed from the first election
• Lex Hadriana (?) – Hadrian's law that enabled permanent tenants to develop land, it was an extension of the Lex Manciana
• 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 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
• Leges Juliae (18 BC) – regarding marriage
• Lex Junia Licinia that was a reinforcement law done in 62 BC to back up the original Lex Caecilia Didia law of 98 BC.
• Lex Junia Norbana (AD 19) – regarding status of freedmen
• Lex Licinia Mucia (95 BC) – removed Latin and Italian allies from Rome's citizen-rolls.
• Lex Licinia Pompeia (55 BC) – Pompey and Crassus set forth to prolong Caesar's proconsulship in both the Gauls for another 5 years
• Lex Licinia Sextia (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 Manciana (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 Minucia (216 BC) – appointment of three finance commissioners
• Lex Ogulnia (300 BC) – the priesthoods are open to plebeians
• Lex Oppia (215 BC) – limited female adornment
• Lex Ovinia (318 BC) – transferred the right to appoint Senators from the Consuls to the Censors
• Les Papia de Peregrinis (65 BC ) – challenged false claims of citizenship and deported foreigners from Rome
• Lex Papia Poppaea (AD 9) – regarding marriage
• Lex Papiria de dedicationibus (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's legions from Macedon to the new provinces.
• Lex Petronia (?) – prevented a master from sending his slave to the beasts in the amphitheater without authorization
• 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 (89 BC) – granted citizenship to Roman allies
• Lex Poetelia Papiria (326 BC) – regarding debt-slavery
• 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 (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 Regia
• 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
• Lex Roscia (49 BC) – Caesar proposed, full Latin Rights on the people of Transalpine Gaul
• Lex Roscia theatralis (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 (c. 149 BC) – a poorly attested law regulating some aspects of homosexual behavior among citizens, primarily protecting freeborn male minors
• Leges Semproniae Agrariae (133 BC) – set of laws issued by Tiberius Gracchus 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 (43 BC) – gave Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus full powers to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar; legalized the second triumvirate
• Lex Trebonia (55 BC) – organization of the provinces
• Lex Tullia (63 BC) – passed by Cicero in his consulship to regulate election fraud (see ambitus)
• Lex Ursonensis foundation charter of the Caesarean colonia Iulia Genetiva
• 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) – 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 governorship of Cisalpine Gaul and of Illyricum for five years
• 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) – disallowed women from being the main heir to a dead man's estate, including cases were there were no male relatives alive