law
Lex Acilia de repetundis
the lex Acilia
also: legis Aciliae, paternae legis Aciliae, lex Acilia
An extortion-court statute that Cicero attributes to the father of the presiding praetor M'. Acilius Glabrio, under which (he says) the Roman people enjoyed the best courts and strictest jurors against extortion. Commonly identified with the Gracchan-era lex Acilia repetundarum.