Lex Aelia Sentia

The Lex Aelia Sentia was an early Classical law enacted in ancient Rome in AD 4 . It was passed by the concilium plebis on the action of Emperor Augustus and, together with the Lex Fufia Caninia passed five years earlier, brought various restrictions on the release of slaves ( manumissio ).

Its content has been passed down primarily through the institutions of Gaius . So it restricted the acquisition of civil rights of freedmen and declared bad faith releases null and void. With the Lex Aelia Sentia, the so-called accusatio ingrati liberti was also introduced, an otherwise unknown form of indicting freed men against their former slaves.

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• Gaius , Institutiones 1, 13.37-40

literature

• Adolf Berger : Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. Volume 43. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1953, p. 547.
• Thomas Finkenauer (Ed.): Slavery and release in Roman law: Symposium for Hans Josef Wieling on his 70th birthday , Springer-Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-35-4036-955-4 , p. 100 f.
• William Smith : Lex Aelia Sentia . In: ders. (Ed.): A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. John Murray, London 1875, p. 684.