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684,LEX AELIA SENTIA. - LEGES ANNALES.
modern collection is that in the Onomasticon of themselves, and must have had as evidence of that
Orellius, intitled "Index Legrum Romanarum qua- fact the presence of' five Romal citizens of full'
rumin apud Ciceronem, ejusque Scholiastas, item age, and have begotten a son who had attained the
apud Liviim, Velleium Paterculum, A. Gellium no- age of one year. On showing these facts to the
minatim mentio fit." There are also extant frag- praetor at Rome, or to the governor in a pronlents of several laws on bronze tablets, such as vince, and the magistrate declaring that the facts
the Lex Thoria, which is a Lex Agraria, and is were proved, the man, his wife, and his child becut on the back of the same tablet which contains came Roman citizens. If the falther died before
tle Lex Servilia; the Lex Rubria; and some few he had proved his case before the magistrate, the
other monuments. mother could do it, and the legal effbect was the
The following is a list of the principal Leges:- same.
ACI'LTA DE COLONIS DI)nUCENnIS (Liv. If a man manulnitted his slave to defraud his
xxxii. 29). creditors, or to defraud a patron of his patronal
ACI;LIA. [REPETUNDAE.] rights, the act of manumnission was made invalid
ACI'LIA CALPU'RNIA. [AMBITUS.] by this law. A person under the age of twenty
AEBU'TIA, of uncertain date, which with two years was also prevented from manninitting any
Juliae Leges put an end to the Legis Actiones, slave, except by the process of Vindicta, and after
except in certain cases. [JunDEX; ACTIO.] establishing a legal cause before a consilium.
Another Lex of the same name prohibited the The consequence was that though a male, who
proposer of a lex, which created ally office or power had completed his fourteenth year, could mnake a
(cmratio ac potestcs), from having such office or will, he could not by his will manumit a slave
power, and even excluded his collegae, cognati and (Gaius, i. 37-40). A male under the age of.ffines. (Cic. in Rull. ii. 8, where lie mentions also twenty could manumit his slave so as to make hil
a Lex Licinia, and in the pro Domo, 20.) a Latinus, but this also required a legal crause to be
AE'LIA. This Lex and a Fufia Lex passed affirmed by a consilium. The provisions of the Lex;asout the end of the sixth century of the city, gave Aelia Sentia, as to mainumitting slaves for the purto all the magistrates the obnunciatio or power of pose of defrauding creditors, did not apply to P'e -
preventing or dissolving the comitia, by observing grini, until the provision was extended for their
tle omens and declaring them to be unfavourable. benefit by a Stumn in the time of Hadrian. The
(Cic. Phil. ii. 32, pro Sestio, 15, ad Altt. ii. 9.) other provisions of the Lex did not apply to PereThere is some difficulty in stating the precise grini. The application of the principles of thle
nlature of these two Leges; for it is most probable Law is showvn in other passages of Gaius (i. 66,
that there were two. The passages in which they 68, 70, 71, 80, 139, iii. 5, 73, 74). In a free
are mentioned are collected in Orellii Onlomasticon, state, when mnanunission muust change the condiInldex Legurn. tion of slaves illto that of citizens, the importanlce
AE'LIA DE COLONIIS DEDUCENDIS. (Liv. of limiting and regulating the manumitting power
xxxiv. 53.) is obvious. Under the later Empire such reguAE'LIA SE'NTIA. This law which was lations would be of little importance. This law
passed in the time of Augustus (about A. D. 3), was passed according to the constitutional forms in
chiefly regulated the mallumission of slaves; a the time of Augustus, when the status of a Civis
nlatter that has been put under certain restrictions had not yet lost its value, and the semblance of
in modern slave states also. the old constitution still existed (Ulpian, 1ray.
By one provision of this law slaves who had tit. i.; Dig. 28. tit. 5. s. 57, 60; 38, tit. 2. s. 33;
been put in chains by their masters as a punish- Tacit. Annal. xv. 55.)
mllent, or branded, or subjected to the other punish- AEII'LIA DE CENSORmIBiS. A Lex passed
mIents mentioned in the law (Gaius, i. 13), if they in the Dictatorship of Mamercus Aemlilius (n. c.
were afterwards manumnitted either by the same 433), by which the Censors were elected for a
misaster or another, did not become Roman citizens year and a half, instead of a whole lhstrum. (Liv.
or evein Latini, but were in the class of Peregrini iv. 24, ix. 33.) After this Lex they had accorddediticii. [DEDITICII.] The law also made regula- ingly only a year and a half allowed them for
tions as to tile age of slaves who might be manu- holding the census and letting out the public works
mitted. It enacted that slaves under thirty years to farm.
of a.ge who were manlnuitted, only became Roman AEMILIA BAEB1IA. [CoRN'ELI BAU] smia.]
citizens whenl they were manumitted by the Vin- AEMI'LIA LEPIDI, AEMI'LIA SCAURtI.
dicta, and after a legal cause for manumnission had [SUvMrrvsRIAE LEGES.1
lbeen established before a consilium. What was AGRA'RIAE. [AnGRARIAI. LEGES; anld LE;x
a legal cause (causa justa), and how the consi- AvuLEIx; CASSI.; CORnTI, IA; FlAMINI,;
hiuml was constituted, are explained by Gaius (i. FLAVIA; JULIA; LICINIA; MAirILIA; S;EI1 9, 20). These consilia f)r the mannmnissioun of PRONIa; SERsIrlIA; THORIA.]
slnves werre held at stated times in the provinlces, AMBITUS. [AMBITVS.]
acnd in Rome. A slave under thirty years of age A'MPIA, a Leox proposed by T. Amrpiis and
could become a Roman citizen if he was made T. LabieTrus, tr. pl. ai. c. 64, by which Cii. Poimfree anld hleres by the testament of a master, who peius was allowed to wear a crown of hbay at the
was not solvent. (Gaiuls, i. 21.) The law also Ludi Circenses, and tile like. (Vell. Pat. ii. 40
contained provisions by which those who were Dion Cass. xxxvii. 21.)
tlnder thirty years of age at the tinle of maInun:is- ANNA'LES LEGEIS were those Leges whichi
sion, and hlad become Latini in consequence of determined -at what age a manl might be ai cauidimalnumission, might acquire the Poman citizenship dtte for the several masgistratuis. (Cic. Jdil7). v. 1 7.)
on certain conditions, which were these. They The first Lex which particularly deternined
imust have taken to wife a Romatn citizen, or a the ag'e at which a man imight be a candidate for
Latinl coloniaria or a woman of the same class as the several nmaistratuis was the Villia. It was