law
Lex Calpurnia de repetundis
Lex Calpurnia
also: lex de pecuniis repetundis, the law on extortion
The first Roman law (149 BC) to establish a standing court for the recovery of money extorted by magistrates from the provincials, carried by the tribune Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi. Cicero notes there had been no extortion law before it.