[1117] Cf. Liv. xxxix. 44 “ultro tributa infimis (pretiis) locaverunt.”
[1118] ib. xliv. 16 “ad opera publica facienda cum eis (censoribus) dimidium ex vectigalibus ejus anni attributum ex senatus consulto a quaestoribus esset”; xl. 46 “censoribus deinde postulantibus ut pecuniae summa sibi, qua in opera publica uterentur, attribueretur, vectigal annuum decretum est.”
[1119] Lex Jul. Munic. l. 73; Liv. xxxix. 44 (quoted n. 2).
[1120] Mommsen (Staatsr. ii. p. 446) takes the phrase to mean something “voluntarily granted” by the Senate to the magistrate.
[1121] Liv. xxxix. 44. The later tendency, however, was for such public rights to be protected by the praetor’s interdicts.
[1122] ib. xl. 51 “complura sacella publica quae fuerant occupata a privatis publica sacraque ut essent paterentque populo curarunt.”
[1123] ib. xliii. 16 “censores ad pignora capienda miserunt multamque pro contione privato dixerunt.”
[1124] Lex agraria ll. 35, 36.
[1125] ib.
[1126] p. 208.