Lex Claudia

(A. D. 47.) The law abolishing agnatic guardianship over women of free birth. LEX C0MMI880RIA. The law which provided that the debtor and creditor might agree that if the debtor did not pay at the day, the pledge should become the absolute property of the creditor. This law was abolished by the Emperor Constantine as unjust and oppressive, and having a growing asperity in practice. 2 Kent 583. LEX CORNELIA DE yEDICTI8. The law forbidding a pnetor to depart during his term of office from the edict he had promulgated at its commencement. Sohm, Rom. L. 51. See PR/ETOR. LEX CORNELIA DE FAL8I8. (B. C. 81.) The law which provided that the same penalty should attach to the forgery of a testament of a person dying in captivity as to that of a testament made by a person dying in his own country. Inst. 2. 12. 5. LEX CORNELIA DE INJURII8. (B. C. about 63.) The law providing a civil action for the recovery of a penalty in certain cases of bodily injury. Sohm, R. L. 329. LEX CORNELIA DE 8ICARII8. (B. O. 81.) The law respecting assassins and poisoners, and containing provisions against other deeds of violence. It made the killing of the slave of another person punishable by death or exile, and the provisions of this law were extended by the Emperor Antoninus Pius to the case of a master killing his own slave. Inst. 1. 8. LEX CORNELIA DE 8P0NSU. (B. C. 81.) A law prohibiting one from binding himself for the same debtor to the same

A law which abolished the ancient guardianship of adult women by their male agnate relations. See Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 615.

Defined under Lex in Black's Law Dictionary.