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Lex Agraria

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In Roman law. The agrarian law. A law proposed by Tiberius Gracchus, A. U. 620, that no one should possess more than five hundred acres of land, and that three commissioners should be appointed to divide- among the poorer people what any one had above that extent. Liv. Epit. 58. LEX ALAMANNORUM (or ALEMANNOrum). The law of the Alemanni; first reduced to writing from the customs of the country by Theodoric, king of the Franks, A. D. 512. Amended and re-enacted by Clotaire IL Spelman; Butler, Hor. Jur. 84. LEX ALIQUANDO SEQUITUR AEQUItatem. The law sometimes follows equity. 3 Wils. 119.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

The Agrarian law limiting the amount of land a Roman could hold.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The agrarian law. A law proposed by Tiberius Gracchus, A. U. C. 620, that no one should possess more than five hundred acres of land; and that three commissioners should be appointed to divide among the poorer people what any one had above that extent.

Defined under Lex in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In Romanlaw. The agrarian law. A law proposed by Tiberius Gracchus, A. U. ©. 620, that no one should possess more than five hundred acres of land; and that three commissioners should be appointed to divide among the pvorer people what any one had above that extent.