LEG ES JUL I /E. Laws enacted during the reign of Augustus or of Julius Caesar which, with the lex abutia, effectually abolished the legis actiones.
Lex Julia de Ambitu. (B. C. 18.) A law to repress illegal methods of seeking office. Inst. 4, 18.
Lex Julia de Adulteriis. (B. O. 18.) The law re lating (1) to divorce, requiring the presence of sev en witnesses and a repudium to, show the fact of repudiation and (2) prohibiting the husband from alienating or mortgaging any fundus italicus com prised in the dos. This provision was extended by Justinian to any fundus dotalis whatever. Sohm, Rom. L. 374, 382.
Lex Julia. de Annona. (B. C. about 43.) A law to repress combinations for heightening the price of provision°.
Lew Julia de Bonorum Cessions. (B. C. about 20.) A law allowing debtors to make a voluntary assign ment of their property. Inst. 3, 12 ; Sohm, Rom. L. 211.
Lex Julia de Majestate. (B. C. 100.) A law which inflicted the punishment of death on all who at tempted anything against the emperor or state, and condemning the wrongdoer after his death. Inst. 4,
18.
Lex Julia de Maritand/is Ordinibus. (B. C. 18,) law forbidding senators and their children to in termarry with freedmen or infames, and freedmen to marry infames. Sohm, Rom. L. 497.
Lew Julia de Residuis. A law punishing those who gave an incomplete account of public money committed to their' charge. Inet. 4, 18.
Lew Julia de Peculatu. (Date unknown; it ex isted in B. C. 90.) A law punishing those who bad stolen public money or property or anything sacred or religious. Magistrates and those who had aided them in stealing public money during their adminis tration were punished capitally ; other persona were deported. Inst. 4, 18, 9.
Lex Julia et Pa/pia Poppcea. See LEX Pax ET POPP)EA.