Macedonian Decree
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Roman law. This was the Senatus-consultum Macedonianum, a decree of the Roman senate, first siven under Claudius, and renewed under Vespasian, by which it was declared that no action should be maintained to recover a loan of money made toa child who was under the patria potestas. It was intended to strike at the practice of usurers in making loans, on unconscionable terms, to family heirs who would morlyags their future exanotorioususurer.
See Mackeld.
Rom. Law § 482; Inst. 4, 7, 1; Dig. 14, 6.