Lex Canuleia
The Lex Canuleia is a law of the Roman Republic passed in the year 445 BCE.[1][2]
Named after the tribune Gaius Canuleius, who proposed it, it abolished a corresponding[clarification needed] prohibition in the Twelve Tables and allowed marriage between patricians and plebeians, with children inheriting the father's social status.[3] It is also referred to in Latin as the Lex de conubio patrum et plebis.
Canuleius also carried through a law that permitted plebeians to hold the office of consul, the highest of the Roman magistracies, which the patricians had retained as their prerogative.[4]
In fiction
In the 1930s novella Goodbye Mr Chips,[5] which is set in an English Public School, its protagonist is trying to explain the law to his Remove Class:
“So, if Mr Patrician told Miss Plebs that, love you as I do, I cannot marry you; she would reply ‘Oh yes you can, you liar!’”
See also
References
- ↑ The Roman Law Library, incl. Leges
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- ↑ Hilton,J.Little, Brown and Company, 1934
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