Decurio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the Roman law. A kind of provincial senator. The decuriones were members of a council or senate established in all the great towns in the Roman provinces, constituting a kind of municipal corporation, and having the whole administration of the internal affairs of the places in which they resided.
1 Spencers Chancery, 54.
Cooper's Justin.
Inst. Notes, *439.
Calvin's Lex. Jurid.