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Lex Villia (Annalis)

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180 B.C.; Lucius Villius Annalis; -Introduced minimum ages for magistracies

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Lex Aurelia Iudiciaria

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70 B.C.; Lucius Aurelius Cotta; -added Equites and Tribunes of the Treasury to the Jury pool of the extortion and corruption court

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Lex Aurelia De Tribunicia Potestate

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75 B.C.; Gaius Aurelius Cotta -gave tribunes the ability to hold further offices after Sulla removed it

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Lex Roscia

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49 B.C.; Lucius Roscius Fabatus (under Caesar); Gave the people of Cisalpine Gaul Citizenship.

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Lex Pompeia de Transpadanis

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89 B.C.; Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo; Gave Latin rights to the citizens of Cisalpine Gaul

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Lex Aufeia

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unknown; Gaius Gracchus or someone under him; something to do with Rome in Asia Minor

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Lex Vatinia

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59 B.C.; Publius Vatinius; Gave Caesar governorship of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, Transalpine Gaul was later added.

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Lex Ogulnia

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300 B.C.; Quintus and Gnaeus Ogulnius; Opened priesthoods to Plebians increased the number of pontifices from 5 to 9 and stipulated that 5 augurs had to be plebian

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Lex Aemilia de censoribus

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434 B.C.; Mamercus Aemilius Mamercinus; A law passed through the tribal assembly which reduced the term of Censors from 5 years to 1.5 years

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Lex Licinia Sextia

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367 B.C.; Gaius Licinius Stolo & Lucius Sextius Lateranus; Four laws: (1) Lex de consule altero ex plebe et de praetore ex patribus creando: Created the praetorship (Exclusively patrician) opened the consulship to Plebeians (2) Lex de aere alieno: provided that the interest already paid on debts should be deducted from the principal and that the payment of the rest of the principal should be in three equal annual instalments. (3) Lex de modo agrorum: restricted individual ownership of public land in excess of 500 iugeras (300 acres) and forbade the grazing of more than 100 cattle on public land. (4) Lex de Decemviri Sacris Faciundis: created the Decemviri sacris faciundis, a college of ten priests, of whom five had to be plebeians.

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Lex Valeria (509 B.C.)

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509 B.C.; Publius Valerius Publicola; Granted every Roman citizen legal right to appeal against a capital sentence, defined and confirmed the right of appeal (provocatio).

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Lex Valeria Horatia

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449 B.C.; Lucius Valerius Potitus & Marcus Horatius Barbatus; Three laws: (1) Lex Valeria Horatia de plebiscitis: established that the resolutions passed by the Plebeian Council were binding on all. (2) Lex Valeria Horatia de provocatione: granted the right to appeal to the People of any decision of magistrates. (3) Lex Valeria Horatia de tribunicia potestate: restored the potestas tribunicia, the powers of the plebeian tribunes.

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Why was the Valerian Law, a law giving Roman Citizens the right to appeal, ineffective according to Livy?

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The punishment for a breech of the appeal by a magistrate was that his act be deemed unlawful and wicked.

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What laws expanded the protections of the Valerian Laws and gave those who broke them punishment?

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The Porcian Laws

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What did the Lex Julia De Vi Publica protect against?

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Rape

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Lex Genucia

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342 B.C.; Lucius Genucius; Three laws: (1) Abolished interest on loans. (2) Required the election of at least one plebeian consul each year. (3) Prohibited a magistrate from holding two magistracies in the same year, or the same magistracy for the next ten years (until 332).

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Lex Publilia (339 B.C.)

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339 B.C.; Q. Publilius Philo; Three laws: (1) Reserved one censorship to plebeians. (2) Made plebiscites binding on all citizens (including patricians). (3) Stated that the Senate had to give its prior approval (the Auctoritas patrum) to plebiscites before becoming binding on all citizens (the Lex Valeria Horatia of 449 had placed this approval after plebiscites).

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Lex Publilia (471 B.C.)

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471 B.C.; Volero Publilius; Transfers the election of Tribunes from the Comitia Centuriata, to the Comitia Tributa, a much more democratic assembly. Eventually he tribunes would be elected in the most democratic assembly the Concilium Plebis

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Lex Poetelia Papiria

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326 B.C.; Gaius Poetelius Libo & Lucius Papirius Cursor; Abolished the Nexum; no one could be imprisoned through debt bondage; Alternatively attributed to the Dictator: Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus of 313 B.C.

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Lex Ovinia

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312 B.C.; (or before); Ovinius; Transferred the right to appoint Senators from the consuls to the censors

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Lex Hortensia

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287 B.C.; Quintus Hortensius; Plebiscites approved by the Assembly of the People (Concilium Plebis) gain the status of law.

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Lex Calpurnia De Repetundis

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149 B.C.; Lucius Calpurnius Piso; Established a permanent extortion court

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Lex Gabinia Tabellaria

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139 B.C.; Aulus Gabinius; Made your vote for Magistrates anonymous limiting the power of the elite to control peoples’ votes.

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Lex Sempronia agraria

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133 B.C.; Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus; Tiberius’s land law that was repealed after his death

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Lex Rubria

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122 B.C.; Gaius Rubrius (under Gaius Gracchus); Authorized Iunonia (Colony in Carthage)

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Lex Domitia De Sacerdotis

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104 B.C.; Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus; Established the election of the pontifex maximus and the members of the college of priests (chosen by cooptation before).

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Lex Caecilia Didia

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98 B.C.; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos & Titus Didius; 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.

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Lex Iulia (De Civitate Latinis Et Sociis Danda)

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90 B.C.; Lucius Julius Caesar; Offered citizenship to all Italians who had not raised arms against Rome in the Social War.

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Lex Plautia Papiria

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89 B.C.; Gaius Papirius Carbo & Marcus Plautius Silvanus; Granted Citizenship to all Roman allies period. (This caused many Latins to lay down arms against Rome and claim their Citizenship.

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The Valerian Law, giving the right of appeal to Roman Citizens, passed 3 times by the same family was passed a final time in what year?

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299 B.C.

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Lex Valeria (82 B.C.)

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82 B.C.; Lucius Valerius Flaccus; Appointed Sulla Dictator

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Lex Cornelia Annalis

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81 B.C.; Sulla; Overturned the Lex Villia Annalis and reordered the Cursus Honorem

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Lex Cornelia De Hostibus Rei Publicae

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81 B.C.; Sulla; Retroactively legalized the proscriptions

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Lex Gabinia de Piratis Persequendis

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67 B.C.; Aulus Gabinius; Granted Pompey extraordinary powers to fight Mediterranean pirates

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Lex Gellia Cornelia

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72 B.C.; Lucius Gellius Publicola & Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus; Authorized Pompey to confer Roman citizenship to his clientela and Spaniards.

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Lex Tullia

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63 B.C.; Cicero; Regulated election fraud (passed after he defended someone guilty of it to make it clear he didn’t support election fraud he supported not overturning elections due to it for stability reasons because it was so common.)

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Lex Caecilia de vectigalibus

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60 B.C.; Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos Iunior; released Italy from paying Taxes

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Lex Iulia de repetundis

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59 B.C.; Julius Caesar; Caesar’s provincial reform law

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Leges Clodiae

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58 B.C.; Clodius Pulcher; Seven laws: (1) Lex Clodia de Auspiciis: repealed the leges Aeliae et Fufiae. (2) Lex Clodia de Censoribus: prescribed certain rules for the Roman Censors in exercising their functions as inspectors of public morals. (3) Lex Clodia de Civibus Romanis Interemptis: threatened punishment for anyone who offered fire and water to those who had executed Roman citizens without a trial. (4) Lex Clodia Frumentaria: required the distribution of grain to Rome’s poor citizens for free. (5) Lex Clodia de Sodalitatibus: declared that certain clubs of a “semi-political nature” (i.e. armed gangs) were lawful. (6) Lex Clodia de Libertinorum Suffragiis: attempted to extend freedmen’s (i.e. ex-slaves’) voting rights. (7) Lex Clodia de Rege Ptolemaeo et de exsulibus Byzantinis: pertained to several of Rome’s eastern provinces and vassal states.

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Lex Licinia Pompeia

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55 B.C.; Pompey and Crassus; Extended Caesars proconsular term for 5 more years

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Lex Trebonia

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55 B.C.; Gaius Trebonius; Gave Crassus Syria and Pompey Spain for 5 years

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Leges Antoniae

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44 B.C. (after Caesar’s death); Nine laws passed by Mark Antony after the death of Julius Caesar: (1) lex Antonia de dictatura in perpetuum tollenda: abolished the dictatorship (2) lex Antonia de actis Caesaris confirmandis: confirmed Caesar’s deeds (3) lex antonia de coloniis in agros deducentis: settled veterans (4) lex Antonia agraria: granted lands to Antony’s supporters (5) lex Antonia de provinciis consularibus: gave a 5-year proconsulship to the consuls (6) lex Antonia de permutatione provinciarum: gave provincial command of the two Gaul to Antony (7) lex antonia de mense quintili: renamed the month of July (8) lex Antonia de quinto die ludorum romanorum rotondi: added a 5th day to the Ludi Romani (9) lex Antonia iudiciaria: altered the composition of juries

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Lex Titia

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43 B.C. Publius Titius; Gave Octavian, Mark Antony and Lepidus full powers to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar; legalized the second triumvirate.

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Lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis

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17 B.C.; Augustus; Made conjugal unfaithfulness a public as well as a private offence, with banishment a possible penalty.

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What tribune proposed the law transferring the command against Mithridates Vi from Sulla to Marius?

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Publius Sulpicius Rufus

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What law creating the tribunate was passed after the first Succession of the Plebs?

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Lex Sacrata

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