LEX IULIA DE SENATU HABENDO
LEX IULIA DE SENATU HABENDO

Summary/Abstract: Lex Iulia de Senatu habendo (9 BC) is a comitial law, proposed by Octavianus Augustus, for which a reform of the Roman Senate and the sena-torial procedure was carried out. The text of the law is not preserved and the information for the provisions that the law contains in various historical writings (by Dio Cassius, Aulus Gellius, Pliny the Younger). The law is not reproduced even one of the legal sources and it is not mentioned in the writings of classical jurists. This legislative reform corresponds to the policy of Augustus to maintain the authority and power of the Senate. The law makes changes in the procedure for Senate meetings (place and period of sessions), and in the procedure for the proposal and vote of Senatusconsulta, also the consequences of the violation of the rules for the sessions.

• Details
• Contents