law
Cornelia testamentaria, nummaria
also: the Cornelian on wills, on coin, Cornelian on wills, on coin
The bundle of statutes carried by Sulla as dictator (82–81 BC) reorganising criminal procedure and much of public life — including the leges Corneliae testamentaria and nummaria (de falsis), against forgery of wills and coin. Cicero arraigns Verres for violations of this code in In Verrem 2.1.
Reading notes
- Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I §108 Cornelian on wills, on coin
lex Cornelia testamentaria de falsis (forgery of wills) and lex Cornelia nummaria (counterfeiting): two of Sulla's standing-court statutes of 81 BC. They prosecuted past acts only as criminal offences that were already crimes when committed; they did not create the offence retrospectively.
- First Philippic §18 the Cornelian laws
The dictator Sulla's legislation; named with the Sempronian laws and Pompey's third consulship as examples of what a magistrate's acts properly are.