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 language 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.
See also: 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
- Lex Aelia et Fufia (c. 150 BC?) - two laws probably regulating auspices
- Lex Aelia Sentia (4 AD) - manumission of slaves
- Lex Aemilia - distribution of freedmen among tribes
- Lex Antonia de Termessibus - alliance with Termessus
- Leges Antoniae - measures of Marcus Antonius 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 Domitia de sacerdotis (104 BC) – Establishes election of pontifex maximus, until then chosen by the college of priests
- 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 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 Julia (90 BC) – Granted citizenship to Roman allies
- Leges Juliae (18 BC) – Regarding marriage
- Lex Julia de Repetundis (59 BC) – Regarding extortion in the provinces
- Lex Junia Norbana (17 BC) – Regarding status of freedmen
- Leges Liciniae Sextiae (367 BC) – Regarding the rights of the plebs
- Lex Manilia (66 BC) – Pompey's actions against Mithridates
- 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 Papia Poppaea (AD 9) – Regarding marriage
- Lex Plautia Papiria (89 BC) – Granted citizenship to Roman allies
- Lex Poetilia (313 BC) – Regarding debt-slavery
- 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 Rubria (122 BC) – Authorized a colony on the ruins of Carthage
- 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 Octavianus, Marcus Antonius and Lepidus full powers to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar; legalizes the second triumvirate
- Lex Trebonia (55 BC) – Organization of the provinces
- Lex Valeria Cornelia (AD 5) – Regarding voting in the Comitia Centuriata
- Leges Valeria Horatiae (449 BC) – Regarding the rights of the plebs
- 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
General denominations
- Lex agraria – A law regulating distribution of public lands
- Lex annalis - qualifications for magistracies
- 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 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.
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.
