Decurio
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Roman law. One of the chief men or senators in the provincial towns. The deeuriones, 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; Calv. Lex.