law
lege Cornelia
also: lex Cornelia
A statute of Sulla's dictatorship (81 BC) confirming the legal disabilities of those proscribed and barring their sons from public office and from recovering ancestral property. Cicero touches on its workings in the Verrines and the Pro Roscio Amerino, where the buying-up of proscribed estates at derisory prices forms the criminal background to the case.