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Comitia

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from coire, quasi comire, to assemble.] In the Roman law. General assemblies of the people, convened by the constitutional authority of some magistrate, in order to enact or repeal anything by their suflfrages. P, Cyclopadia, Aulus Oellius, XV.

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Id, xiii.

15. Sigoniusde Ant, Jur, Civ, Rom, i, 17.

Gruchius de Comit, Pom, lib. iii. They were of three kinds; curiata, centuriata, and tributa. See infra,