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lex Licinia de sodaliciis

Lex Licinia

also: legi Liciniae, lex Licinia, the Lex Licinia

Crassus's law of 55 BC against electoral clubs (sodalicia) used to organise bribery, prosecuting the systematic corruption of voting tribes. A defendant acquitted under the general lex de ambitu could still be tried afresh under this stricter statute.

Mentioned in 5 works (5 total)

On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech speeches · 1 mention
On His House speeches · 1 mention
For Gnaeus Plancius speeches · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 8.2 letters · 1 mention
Brutus rhetoric · 1 mention

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