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Falcidia lex

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Kinney (1893), Burrill (1850)

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I, Falcidian law.

In the civil law. A law enacted on motion of Publius Falcidius, tribune of the people, A. XJ. C. 714, by which a testator was forbidden to give more in legacies than threefourths of all his effects. Falcidian portion: that portion of a testator's estate which by that law was required to be left to the heir.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

In Roman Jaw. The Falcidian law. Inst. 2. 22. See Folcidian Law.