Leges Semproniae

The Leges Semproniae are those of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in 133 BC. And his brother Gaius Sempronius Gracchus 123 BC. BC - the tribunes of the respective years - laws requested in the course of the so-called Gracchian reform :

By Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus 133 BC. Proposed law

• Lex agraria ("Ackergesetz"): First of the extensive agricultural laws on the redistribution of the ager publicus and other questions of property law

By Gaius Sempronius Gracchus 123 BC. BC and 122 BC Laws applied for

• Lex agraria ("Farm Law"): New application for the first Farm Law from 133 BC. BC, which had been canceled in the meantime
• Lex frumentaria ("Grain Law"): regulated the cheap sale of grain to the urban plebs: everyone should get five bushels a month for 6⅓ aces .
• Lex iudiciaria (“Jury Law”): pushed back the influence of the senators in favor of the knights ( equites , singular eques ) in the courts of justice.
• Lex militaris ("Defense Law"): Young people under the age of 17 were not allowed to be dug up as soldiers. The state also paid for the equipment for the recruits.
• Lex de provincia Asia (“Law on the Province of Asia”): Introduction of the Roman tax lease system in this province instead of that of the Attalids , which had previously been used.
• Lex de provinciis consularibus ("Law on the Consular Provinces "): In future, the election of the consuls should only take place after it had been determined which province should be assigned to them after their term of office.
• Lex de provocatione ("Law on Appeal"): Established the right of provocation and its modalities and prohibited interference by magistrates in this right, according to which a citizen who saw himself threatened by magistrates could appeal to the people for assistance.
• Lex de viis muniendis ("Law on the development of roads"): Promotion of public road construction.

literature

• T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs , No. XV, 1). American Philological Association, New York 1951, ISBN 978-0891307068 , pp. 493 f., P. 513 f., P. 517 f.
• Pierre Grimal (Ed.): The construction of the Roman Empire. The Mediterranean World in Antiquity III (= Fischer Weltgeschichte . Volume 7). Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main 1966.
• Ingemar König : The Roman State. A manual. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-018668-8 , p. 128 f.
• Egon Weiß : Leges Semproniae. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XII, 2, Stuttgart 1925, Col. 2414.