ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Praetorium, Herennius Modestinus
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Roman law in antiquity (ancient times) week 1. Imperium (state power): king (for life, has all the three powers) Ius civile (law of the roman citizens), three sources: edictum (edicta): king could issue written laws, lex (leges): assembly of citizens (comitia, old senior men in society, usus (customary law-not written down) Senate is an assembly of descendants of patres" or senes": particians (elder men) Senatus consultum: not law but advice to king. Not a body that makes laws, no legislative power. Lucretia and sextus (sons of superbus) cause of fall of the roman kingdom. Imperium (state power): 2 elected consuls (not elected from the public but from rich people (general people"s assembly, also elected praetor) not paid) One can override the other, a compromise has to be reached. Law of the xii tables (lex xii tabularum) Strife between patricians (rich/high ranking people) and plebeians (middle or low class people)
