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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.