Lex_Appuleia_de_maiestate

<i>Lex Appuleia de maiestate</i>

Lex Appuleia de maiestate

Roman treason law

The lex Appuleia de maiestate was a Roman law introduced by Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, passed during one of his two tribunates, either 103 BC or 100 BC.[1][2] The exact provisions are unknown, but it attempted to protect the sovereignty of the Roman people as represented by the tribunate.[3] It apparently punished incompetent military commanders.[1]

The provisions of the lex Appuleia

The law established the permanent criminal court in Rome, a quaestio maiestas, to deal with crimes against the Roman people: treason. The juries in this court consisted of equestrians.[4] The law established maiestas as a separate crime from perduellio.[5]

Prosecutions

  • Quintus Servilius Caepio - quaestor 100 BC.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Rutledge, Steven H. (2002). Imperial Inquisitions: Prosecutors and Informants from Tiberius to Domitian. Routledge. p. 87. ISBN 9781134560608.
  2. [2]
    Williamson, Caroline (2010). The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472025428.
  3. [3]
    Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898),M, Maenus, Maiestas.
  4. [4]
    Dillon, Matthew; Garland, Lynda (2013). Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook. Routledge. ISBN 9781136761430.
  5. [5]
    Colunga, Isaac J. (2011). "UNTANGLING A HISTORIAN'S MISINTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT ROME'S TREASON LAWS" (PDF). The Journal Jurisprudence. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2020.
  6. [6]
    Dillon, Matthew; Garland, Lynda (2013). Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook. Routledge. ISBN 9781136761430.


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