Comitia

I. In the Roman law. General assemblies of the people, convened by the constitutional authority of some magistrate, in order to enact or repeal anything by their suffrages. Comitia calata: assemblies convened for certain religious purposes, and at which testaments were usually made; applied to both the comitia curiata and the comitia centuriata. Comitia centuriata: assemblies of the people, instituted by Servius Tu Uius, and embracing all orders (though the patricians and persons of property generally exercised a controlling influence), in which the people gave their votes by centuries. Comitia curiata: assemblies wholly or mainly of the patrician order, instituted by Eomulus, in which they voted in curice, or parishes, of which there were thirty. Comitia tribnta: assemblies of the people, probably of the plebeians only, established B. C. 491, in which they voted according to tribes.