Comitia centuriata

Lat. Comitia of centuries. Assemblies of the people, instituted by Servius Tullius, in which they gave their votes in centuries. These comitia embraced all the orders of the state, though the patricians and men of property generally exercised a controlling influence m them. Aulus Gellius, xv. 27. 1 Kent's Com, 619, and note. Federalist, No. 34. They were held for the election of maflristrates, the making of laws, and the trial of offences against the state, and were the most important of the three kinds of comitia,