Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Falcidia lex

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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.