Leges Genuciae

Laws proposed by the tribune Lucius Genucius from the year 342 BC Chr.

content

• Interest is illegal
• Nobody can hold the same office within ten years
• Nobody is allowed to hold two offices within a year
• Both consuls can be plebeians

source

Livy 7:42

literature

• Gary Forsythe: A Critical History of Early Rome. From Prehistory to the First Punic War. University of California Press, Berkeley CA / Los Angeles CA / London 2005, ISBN 0-520-22651-8 , pp. 272-274.