Quiz 2- Laws Flashcards
What led to the first succession of the plebs?
was sparked by the people’s unhappiness with the burdens and punishments of debt that led to the creation of the tribunate of the plebs
When were the decemvirates present?
541-450 BCE
What were the decemvirates?
were a group of ten men who were employed to write up a code of law but after being reelected for another year became tyrannical until the second secession of the plebs
When were the twelve tables signed into laws?
449 BCE
What were the twelve tables?
codification into statutory law of existing customs for private law, sacred, and public law and they bound all people and allowed the people to know their rights
What year were the Velario-Horatian laws?
449 BCE
What were the Valerio-Horatian laws?
declared that what the plebs ordered in the tribal organizations would be binding on all people, the tribunes, aediles or decemviral judges of the plebs were to be protected, senate decrees given to the aediles and it also stated that the citizens now had the right of appeal
When were the Lex Canuleia?
445 BCE
What were the lex Canuleia?
allowed intermarriage between patricians and plebeians
When were the licino-Sextian laws?
367 BCE
What were the Licino-Sextian laws?
were laws that governed debt with interest deducted from principal and the balance could be paid off in installments, in addition to limiting the amount of land someone could hold, and require that one of the consuls be chosen from the plebs and a praetor from the patricians
When were the Lex Olgunia?
300 BCE
What were the lex Olgunia?
it stated that the number of augurs would be raised to 9 and the pontiffs to 8 with 5 of the augurs plebs and 4 of the pontiffs plebs
When were the lex hortensiA?
287BCE
What were the lex hortensia?
stated that plebiscites (plebeaian laws) were to bind the whole people
