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Decurio

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In Roman Law. One of the chief men or senators in the provincial towns. The decniriones. taken together, had the entire management of the internal affairs of their towns or cities, with powers resembling in some degree those of our modern city councils.

1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 54; Calvinus, Lex.