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Lex Plaetoria

the Lex Plaetoria

also: Lex Plaetoria, lege Plaetoria

A Roman statute (early 2nd century BC) protecting men under twenty-five from being defrauded in contracts. Cicero cites it, with the Twelve Tables on guardianship, as a legal precedent for penalising fraud.

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