Jus Provinciarum

A franchise conferred upon provincials much more limited than that conferred upon the people of Italy. It has been described as "equivalent to the jua italicum minus the freedom from land taxation which the latter right Involved. In short, the provincials possessed no status as Roman citizens; and even their capacity of ownership in their own land was qualified by their tributary obligations to Rome. The civil Incapacity of the provincials bad reference, however, merely to their exclusion from tbe strictly legal rights sanctioned by tbe jua civile.’* Morey, Rom. L. 55.