Decemviri stlitibus judicandis
The decemviri stlitibus judicandis[i] was a civil court of ancient origin, traditionally attributed to Servius Tullius, which originally dealt with cases concerning whether an individual was free.[1][2]
History
Originally these decemvirs were a jury of ten men, serving under the presidency of a magistrate, but later this court became the
centumviri to the decemviri stlitibus judicandis. In imperial times, the decemvirs also had jurisdiction in capital crimes.[3][1]
Footnotes
References
- ^ a b Clay, Agnes Muriel (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 912; see para 2.
II. The judicial board of decemvirs (stlitibus judicandis) formed a civil court of ancient origin concerned mainly with questions bearing on the status of individuals.
- ^ Colognesi, Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth.
- ^ Suetonius, "The Life of Augustus", 36.
Bibliography
- Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars).
- Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History.
- Clay, Agnes Muriel (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 912.
- Luigi Colognesi, Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth, Cambridge University Press (2014).