Lex Acilia Repetundarum
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title:
Lex Acilia Repetundarum
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The Lex Acilia Repetundarum was a law established in ancient Rome in 123 BC. It provides for members of the equestrian order as jurors in courts overseeing the senatorial class to prevent corruption abroad. Equites who gained tax contracts or presided over courts could not, unlike senators, be prosecuted for extortion. The law was extremely unpopular in the Senate since it subjected the senatorial class to the inferior equestrian. It was believed to be part of Gaius Gracchus' measures, even thou
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Roman law on jury selection
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Acilia_Repetundarum
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2023-08-20T02:04:28Z
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