Cornēlia lex

, de Civitate , was enacted A.U.C. 670, by Lucius Cornel i us Sylla. It confirmed the Sulpician law, and required that the citizens of the eight newly elected tribes should be divided among the 35 ancient tribes.――Another, de Judiciis , A.U.C. 673, by the same. It ordained that the pretor should always observe the same invariable method in judicial proceedings, and that the proce should not depend upon his will.――Another, de Sumptibus , by the same. It limited the expenses which generally attended funerals.――Another, de Religione , by the same, A.U.C. 677. It restored to the college of priests the privilege of choosing the priests, which, by the Domitian law, had been lodged in the hands of the people.――Another, de Municipiis , by the same, which revoked all the privileges which had been some time before granted to the several towns that had a isted Marius and Cinna in the civil wars.――Another, de Magi strati bus , by the same, which gave the power of bearing honours and being promoted before the legal age, to those who had followed the interest of Sylla, while the sons and partisans of his enemies, who had been proscribed, were deprived of the privilege of standing for any office of the state.――Another, de Magi strati bus , by the same, A.U.C. 673. It ordained that no person should exercise the same office within 10 years’ distance, or be invested with two different magistracies in one year.――Another, de Magi strati bus , by the same, A.U.C. 673. It divested the tribunes of the privilege of making laws interfering, holding a emblies, and receiving appeals. All such as had been tribunes were incapable of holding any other office in the state by that law.――Another, de Majestate , by the same, A.U.C. 670. It made it treason to send an army out of a province, or engage in a war without orders, to influence the soldiers to spare or ransom a captive general of the enemy, to pardon the leaders of robbers or pirates, or for the absence of a Roman citizen to a foreign court without previous leave. The punishment was, aquæ et ignis interdictio .――Another, by the same, which gave the power to a man accused of murder, either by poison, weapons, or false accusations, and the setting fire to buildings, to choose whether the jury that tried him should give their verdict clam or pal am , vivâ voce or by ballot .――Another, by the same, which made it aquæ et ignis interdictio to such as were guilty of forgery, concealing and altering of wills, corruption, false accusations, and the debasing or counterfeiting of the public coin; all such as were acce ary to this offence were deemed as guilty as the offender.――Another, de pecuniis repetundis , by which a man convicted of peculation or extortion in the provinces was condemned to suffer the aquæ et ignis interdictio .――Another, by the same, which gave the power to such as were sent into the provinces with any government, of retaining their command and appointment, without a renewal of it by the senate, as was before observed.――Another, by the same, which ordained that the lands of proscribed persons should be common, especially those about Volaterræ and Fesulæ in Etruria, which Sylla divided among his soldiers.――Another, by Caius Cornel i us, tribune of the people, A.U.C. 686, which ordained that no person should be exempted from any law, according to the general custom, unle 200 senators were present in the senate; and no person thus exempted could hinder the bill of his exemption from being carried to the people for their concurrence.――Another, by Nasica, A.U.C. 582, to make war against Perseus, son of Philip king of Macedonia, if he did not give proper satisfaction to the Roman people.