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1:026 SENATUSCONSULTUM. SEN ATUSCONSULT UM.
JUNCIANUrM, passed in the reign of Comnmodus, derelt " (Tacit. A nn. xiii. 32): " Ut occisa uxcre
related to Fideicommissa Libertas. (Dig. 40. tit. 5. etiam de familia viri quaestio habeatur, idemque ut
s. 28, 51.) This Senatusconsultum is preserved in juxta uxoris familiam observetur, si vir dicatur
one of the passages of the Digest referred to. occisus " (Paulus, S. R. iii. tit. 5, who gives in
JUNIANUM, passed in the time of Domitian, in substance also the provision mentioned by Tacitus,
the tenth consulship of Domitian, and in the con- but adds: " Sed et hi torquentur, qui cum occiso
sulship of Ap. Junius Sabilus, A. D. 84, had for its in itinere fuerunt "): ", Ut, si poenae obnoxius
object to prevent collusion between a master and servus venisset, quandoque in eum animadversum
his slave, by which the slave should be made to esset, venditor pretium praestaret."' (Dig. 29. tit. 5.
appear to be as a free man. The person who dis- s. 8.)
covered the collusion obtained the slave as his pro- ORPHIITIANUM enacted in the time of M. Anreperty. (Dig. 40. tit. 16.) lilus (Capitol. in vita, 11) that the legitima hereditas
JUVENTIANUM is the name given by modern of a mother who had not been in manu, might
jurists to the Senatusconsultum, which is preserved come to her sons to the exclusion of the consanin the Digest (5. tit. 3. s. 20. ~ 6). The Senatus- guinei and other agnati. The name Orphitianilll
consultum is placed under the title "De Htereditatis is supplied by Paulus (S. R. iv. tit. 10), and the
Petitione." Digest (38. tit. 17); the enactment was made in
LARGIANUM, passed in the first year of the Em- the consulship of V. Rufus (and C. Orphitus. (Inst.
peror Claudius, A. D. 42, gave to the children of a 3. tit. 4.)
Manumissor, if they were not exheredated by name, Paulus (iv. tit. 14) speaks of rules relating to
a right to the bona of Latini in preference to Ex- manumission being included in a Senatusconsultumn
tranei heredes. (PATRONUS; Gaius, iii. 63-71; Orphitianum. [HERES.] This Senatulscon)sultlln
Inst. 9. tit. 7. s. 4; Cod. 7. tit. 6.) was made in the joint reign of M. Aurelius and
LIBONIANUAI, passed in the reign of Tiberius, in Commodus. (Impp. Anton. et Commodi oratione
the consulship of T. Statilius Taurus and L. Scribo- in senatu recitata, Ulp. Fretag. tit. xxvi.) See ORAnius Libo, A. D. 16, contained various provisions, TIONES PRINCIPUM.
one of which was to the effect that if a man wrote PEGASIANIJM was enacted in the reign of Vespaa will for another, every thing which he wrote in sian, Pegasus and Pulsio being Consules ( Suffecti?)
his own favour was void: accordingly he could not in the year'of the enactment. (Inst. ii. tit. 23
make himself a tutor (Dig. 26. tit. 2. s. 29), ntor Gains, ii. 254, &c) The provisions of this Senaheres orlegatarius (Dig. 34. tit. 8). This Senataus- tusconsulltum are stated under FInEICOcaMIsSa
consultum contained other provisions, and it ap- and LEGATUM. This Senatusconsultum, or another
pears to have been an extension of the Lex Cornelia of the same name, modified a provision of the Lex
de Falsis. [FALSUM.] See also Coll. Leg. 3i. & Aelia Sentia as to a Latinus becoming a Romanus.
R. viii. 7. (Gaius, i. 31.)
MACEDONIANUM, enacted A. n. 46, provided PERSICIANUM, which may be the correct form
that any loan of money to a filiusfamilias coil d not instead of Pernicianum, was enacted in the time of
be recovered even after the death of the father. Tiberius A. D. 34, and was an amendment of the
The Senatusconsultuin took its name fitm Macedo, Lex Julia et Papia Poppaea. (Compare LEx
a notorious usurer, as appears from the terms of JULIA ET PAP. POP.; Ulp. Fscg. tit. xvi.;
The Senatusconsultnm which is preserved (Dig. Sueton. Claud. 23.)
14. tit. 6). Theophilus (Paroap7lh. Inst.) states in- PISONIANUa. [NERONIANUaso.]
correctly that the Senatusconsultum took its name PLANCIANUM, Of uncertain date, is by some
from a filiusfamilias. The provision of the Senatus- writers assigned to the time of Vespasian. The
consultum is cited by Tacitus (Ann. xi. 13), but Lex Julia Papia et Poppaea apparently contained
in such terms as might lead to ambiguity in the a provision by which a fideicommissum was forfeited
interpretation of the law. Suetonius (Vesp. 11) to the Fiscus, if -a heres or legatarius engaged
attributes this Senatusconsultutl to the time of himself by a Written instrument or any other secret
Vespasian; but he states its provisions in less mode to pay or give the fideicommissumn to a person
ambiguous terms than Tacitus. who was legally incapable of taking it. (Dig. 30.
MEM.MIANUM. This name is sometimes given to s. 103; 34. tit. 9. s. 10, 18; 49. tit. 14. s. 3.)
the Senatusconsultum, passed in the time of Nero, Such a Fideicommlssum was called Tacitum, and
the terms of which are preserved by Tacitus (Ann. when made in the way described was said to be
xv. 19): "ne sirnulata adoptio in ulla parte mrune- "in fraudem legis," designed to evade the law. If
ris publici juvaret, ac ne usurplandis qulidem here- it was made openly (palm)-, this was no frias,
ditatibus prodesset." The object of this Senatus- and though the fideicommissum might be invalid
consultum was to prevent the evasion of the Lex on account of the incapacity of the fideicommisJulia et Papia Poppaea. it is sometimes referred sarius to take, the penalty of the lex did not appl-.
to the consulbship of C. Memmius Regulis and V;ir- It does not appear certain whether this pravisions
ginius Rufus A. I). 63, but it appears to belong to as to the confiscation was contained in the original
the preceding year. See Dig. 31. s. 51, and 53. Lex or added by some subsequent Senatusconsultit. 1. s. 76. tum. However this may be, the fiduciarius still
NERONIANUM de Legatis, the provisions of retailned his Quarta. But a Senatnlsconsultum menwhich are stated in the article LEGATUM. (Gaius, tioned by Ulpian (Fs'ag. tit.xxv. s, 17) enacted that
ii. 157, 198, 212, 218, 2:20; Ujlp. orag. xxiv.) if a man undertook to perform a tacitum fideicoinNERONIANUM, also Called PISONIANUiI, from miissumn, he lost the Quadrans or Quarta [FtDEIbeing enacted in the.consilship of Nero and L. COMmISSUm], nor could he claim what was
Calpurnius Piso, A. D. 57. It contained various Caducum under the Testamenta, which as a general
provisions: " Ut si qoais:a suis servis interfectus rule he could claim if he had children. [LEGATUM;
esfset, ii quoque, qui testamento manumissi sub BONA CAnDUCA.] This Senatusconsultum, it ap(e:deml tecto mansissent, inter servos supplicia pen- pears from an extract in the Digest (35. tit. 2.