law
Lex Gabinia (on provincial loans)
lex Gabinia
also: lex Gabinia
A lex Gabinia (probably of the tribune A. Gabinius, 67 BC) that barred provincials and their cities from contracting loans at Rome and barred Roman courts from enforcing such bonds; the Salaminians needed special senatorial decrees to borrow from Brutus's agents around it.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 5.21 §12 the lex Gabinia (a law on provincial loans)
A lex Gabinia (probably of the tribune A. Gabinius, 67 BC) barred provincials from contracting loans at Rome and barred Roman courts from enforcing such bonds, which is why the Salaminians needed special senatorial decrees to borrow from Brutus's agents.
- Ad Atticum 6.2 §7 the Lex Gabinia
A lex Gabinia (of the tribune A. Gabinius, here Cicero's 'law of Aulus') barred provincials from contracting loans at Rome and barred Roman courts from enforcing such bonds, which is why the Salaminians needed special senatorial decrees to borrow from Brutus's agents.