List of Roman laws

Roman laws

Post-Roman law codes based on Roman legislation

• lex Romana Burgundionum one of the law tables for Romans after the fall of Western Roman Empire
• lex Romana Visigothorum one of the law tables for Romans after the fall of Western Roman Empire

  General denominations

• lex agraria A law regulating distribution of public lands
• lex annalis qualifications for magistracies
• lex ambitus Laws involving electoral bribery and corruption; see ambitus
• lex curiatawas any law passed by the comitia curiata, including the lex curiata de imperio; Roman adoptions, particularly so-called "testamentary adoptions," were also recognised by a lex curiata, famously in 59 BC when the patrician Clodius Pulcher was adopted into a plebeian gens in order to run for the office of tribune of the plebs.
• lex curiata de imperio Law granting imperium to senior Roman magistrates under the Republic; it was the traditional basis for the later lex de Imperio allowing Imperial succession. Under the monarchy, it was also used to ratify the choice of a new king, and later confirmed Octavian's adoption as Caesar's son in 43 BC
• lex frumentaria A law regulating price of grain
• lex sumptuaria A law regulating the use of luxury items and public manifestations of wealth

  Resolutions of the Senate

• Senatus consultum A Senate decree
• Senatus consultum ultimum or Senatus consultum de re publica defenda a late republic alternative to nominating a dictator

• Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus concerning the Bacchanalia
• Senatus consultum Claudianum concerning slaves
• Senatus consultum Macedonianum concerning loan/mutuum
• Senatus consultum Neronianum concerning legatum
• Senatus consultum Orphitianum concerning inheritance
• Senatus consultum Pegasianum concerning fideicommissum
• Senatus consultum Silanianum concerning slaves
• Senatus consultum Tertullianum concerning inheritance
• Senatus consultum Vellaeanum concerning intercedere

  Other

• Constitution of the Roman Republic Set the separation of powers and checks and balances of the Roman Republic
• Acceptilatio spoken statement of debt or obligation release
• Constitutio Antoniniana granted citizenship to the Empire's freemen
• Corpus Iuris Civilis codification by emperor Justinian
• Stipulatio basic oral contract
• Twelve Tables The first set of Roman laws published by the Decemviri in 451 BC, which would be the starting point of the elaborate Roman constitution. The twelve tables covered issues of civil, criminal and military law. Every Roman that went to school was supposed to know them by heart.