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6116 T,EX CTNCI A. LEGES COIRNELIAE.
do2iuwrve acci.aItu. Iin the time of Augustus, the tIler with the essay of Savigny, will furnish the
lex Cincia was confirmed by a senatusconsultuml reader with all the necessary references and I;1(Dion Cass. liv. 18), and a penalty of four times terials for investigating this subject.
the sum received was imposed on the advocate. CLAU'DIA, a Lex passed in the time of the
This fact of confirmation will explain a passage in emperor Claudius, took away the agnatorum tuteld'acitus (Ann. xiii. 42). The law was so far nmodi- in the case of wonen. (Gaius, i. 171.)
lied in the time of Claudius, that an advocate was CLAUIDIA DE SENATORIBUS, B.C. 218. The
allowed to receive ten sestertia; if he took any provisions of this Lex are stated by Livy (xxi.
sum beyond that, he was liable to be prosecuted 63), and alluded to by Cicero (iZ Verr. v. 18) as
for repetundae (i-epetuendarum tenehatur, Tacit. A.2n. antiquated and dead.
xi. 7; see also Sueton. ANero, 17, and the note in CLAU'DIA DE Soclis, n. c. 177. (Liv. xli. 8, 9.)
Burmann's edition). [REPETUNDA-E.] It appears CLAU'DIA DE SENATU COOPTANDO HAL.Ethat this permission was so far restricted in Tra- SINORUaM (Cic. in Ver-r. ii. 49).
jan's time, that the fee could not be paid till the CLO'DIAE, the name of various plebiscita, prowork was done. (Plin. E]p. v. 21). posed by Clodius when tribune, B. c. 58.
So far the Cincian law presents no difficulty; CLODIa DE AusPICIIs, prevented the magislhut it appears that the provisions of the law were tratus from dissolving the Comitia Tributa, by
not limited to the case already stated. They ap- declaring that the auspices were unfavourable.
plied also to gifts in general; or, at least, there This lex therefore repealed the Aelia aald Fufia.
were enactments which did limit the amount of It also enacted that a lex might be passed on the
what a person could give, and also required gifts Dies Fasti. (Dion Cass. xxxviii. 13; Cic, in
to he accompanied with certain formalities; and it Vatin. 17, in Pison. 4, 5.) [AELIA LEX.]
does not seem possible to refer these enactments to CLODIA DE CENSORIBUS. [C4ACILIA.]
tany other than the Cincian law. The numerous CLODIA DE CIvIBUs ROMANIS INTEREMPTIS,
contradictions and difficulties which perplex this to the effect that " qui civem Romanum indemnasubject, are perhaps satisfactorily reconciled and tum interemisset ei aqua et igni interdiceretur."
removed by the following conjecture of Savigny (Vell. Pat. ii. 45.) It was in consequence of this
(Ueber die 1ea, Cincia, Zeitschrift, &c. iv.): - lex that the interdict was pronounced against Ci" Gifts which exceeded a certain amount were only cero, who considers the whole proceeding as a
valid when noade by mancipatio, in jure cessio, or privilegium. (Pro Donoe, 18, &c., Post Redit. in
by tradition: small gifts consequently were left to Sen. 2. 5, &c.; Dion Cass. xxxviii. 14.)
a person's free choice as before; but large gifts CLODIA FRUAIENTARIA, by which the corn,
(except in the case of near' relations) were to be which had formerly been sold to the poor citizens
acce:mpanied with certain formalities." The object at a low rate, was given. (Dion Cass. xxxviii. 13
of the law, according to Savigny, was to prevent Cic. pro Domeo, 10.) [FRUMENTARIAE LEGES.]
foolish and hasty gifts to a large amount; and CLODIorA DE SODALITATIBUS or DE COLLEGIIS
consequently was intended among other things to restored the Sodalitia which had been abolished by
prevent fraud. This was effected by declaring a senatusconsultum of the year B. C. 80, and perthat certain forms were necessary to mnake thle gift mitted the formation of new sodalitia. (Cic. in
valid, such as mancipatio and in jure cessio, both Pis. 4, pro Sest. 25, ~cd Att. iii. 15; Dion Cass.
of which required some time and ceremony, and so xxxviii. 13.)
allowed the giver opportunity to reflect on what CLOD1A DE LIBERTINORUM SUFcFRAGIIS (Cic.
he was doing. These forms also could not be ob- pro AMil. 12, 33).
served, except in the presence of other persons, CLODIA DE REGE PTOLEMAEO ET DE EXSUwhich was an additional security against fraud. LIBUS BYZANTINIS (Vell. Pat. ii. 45; Cic. pro
It is true that this advantage was not secured by Domn. 8, 20, pro Sest. 26; Dion Cass. xxxviii. 30
the law inl the ease of the most valuable things, Plut. Cat. Min. 34).
nee nmancipi, namely, money, for the transferring of There were other so-called Leges Clodiae, which
which bare tradition was sufficient; but, on the were however Privilegia.
other hand, a gift of a large sum of ready money is COE'LIA. [C.AEL5A.]
one that people of all gifts are least likely to make. COMMISSO'RIA LEX. [CoMMISSoRIA
Savigny conclhtdes, and principally from a pas- LEx.]
sage in Pliny's letters (x. 3), that the Cincian law CORNE'L1AE. Various leges passed in the
originally contained no exception in fivour of rela- dictatorship of Sulla and by his influence, are so'tives; but that all gifts above a certain amount called. (Liv. Epit. 89.)
required the formalities already mentionled. The AGRARIA, by which many of the inhabitants of
emperor Antoninus Pinus introduced an exception in Etruria and Latium were deprived of the complete
ihvour of parents and children, and also of near civitas and retained only the commercium, and a
collateral kinsmen. It appears that this exception large part of their lands were made Publicum and
was subsequently abolished (Cod. Hermog. vi. 1), given to military colonists. (Cic. ins Rull. ii. 28,
but was restored by Constantine (A. n. 319) so far iii. 2, 3.)
as it was in favour of parents and children; and so DE CIVITATE (Liv. Epit. 86; Cic. pro Domn.
it continued as long as the provisions of the Cincian 30, pro Caecin. 33, 35; Sall. Hist. Frag. lib. I.
law were in-force. Orat. Lepidi.)
As to the amount beyond which the law forbade DE FALSIS. [FALSUM.]
a gift to be made, except inl conformity to its pro- DE INJIJPIS. [INJURIA.]
visions, see Savigny, Zeitschrift, &c. iv. p. 36. JUDICIARIA. [JUDEX, p. 650, a.]
The matter of the lex Cincia is also discussed in DE MAGISTRATIBTVS (Appian, Bell. Civ. i.
an elaborate essay by IHasse (Rleinisches Miuseumo, 100, 101), partly a renewal of old Plebiscita (Liv.
1827), and it is discussed by Puchta, Inst. vol. ii. vii. 42, x. 13).
~ 206. These examinations of the subject toge- MAJESTATIS. [MAJESTAS.]