ICILĬA, B.C. 456, by which the Aventinus was assigned to the plebs. This was the first instance of the ager publicus being assigned to the plebs. Another Lex Icilia, proposed by the tribune Sp. Icilius, B.C. 470, had for its object to prevent all interruption to the tribunes while acting in the discharge of their duties. In some cases the penalty was death.
JŪLĬAE. Most of the Juliae Leges were passed in the time of C. Julius Caesar and Augustus.
De Adulteriis. [[Adulterium].]
Agraria, B.C. 59, in the consulship of Caesar, for distributing the ager publicus in Campania among 20,000 poor citizens, who had each three children or more.
De Ambitu. [[Ambitus].]
De Bonis Cedendis. This lex provided that a debtor might escape all personal molestation from his creditors by giving up his property to them for the purpose of sale and distribution. It is doubtful if this lex was passed in the time of Julius Caesar or of Augustus, though probably of the former.
De Caede et Veneficio (Suet. Ver. 33), perhaps the same as the Lex De Vi Publica.
De Civitate was passed in the consulship of L. Julius Caesar and P. Rutilius Lupus, B.C. 90. [[Civitas]; [Foederatae Civitates].]
De Fenore, or rather De Pecuniis Mutuis or Creditis (B.C. 47), passed in the time of Julius Caesar. The object of it was to make an arrangement between debtors and creditors, for the satisfaction of the latter. The possessiones and res were to be estimated at the value which they had before the civil war, and to be surrendered to the creditors at that value; whatever had been paid for interest was to be deducted from the principal. The result was, that the creditor lost about one-fourth of his debt; but he escaped the loss usually consequent on civil disturbance, which would have been caused by novae tabulae.
Judiciariae. [[Judex].]