Legal Latin

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C. Roman Legal System Comprehension Questions

1. The twelve tables
2. to make the rules of law open and available to all citizens
3. no
4. In theory, but the wealthy had more control over the legal system and thus were most often treated differently.
5. A citizen could be put to death, only if tried within the confines of Rome; if he were in the provinces, he could not be put to death, flogged, tortured or put in chains. He could be returned to Rome for trial however.
6. standing juries - quaestiones perpetuae
7. Members of the upper classes.
8. Juries consisted of members of the upper class. Each jury dealt with selected offenses and continued on for several cases until a new jury was selected.
9. On could not appeal a jury judgement until after the rule of Augustus.
10. The city judge to whom an accusor brought his claim. His task was to keep order in the city.
11. False witness, adultery and counterfeiting were crimes punishable by death.
12. Senators and Equestrians were generally exiled for a time and their property confiscated.
13. Plebians were scourged of sent to work in the mines or arena.
14. A Roman lawyer could not be paid in currency. His role was to be so eloquent that the people would be moved to acquit his client. A good lawyer was a convincing speaker.
15. They were used to incarcerate those awaiting trial or execution.
16. patronus - advoate, delator - accuser, subscriptores - witnesses, praetor - judge
17. nominis delatio - making of a formal charge, inscriptio - writing, praemium - reward, prize
18. calumnia - penalty fine, postulatio - application for a hearing, inquisitio - trial, hearing the evidence
19. The right to vote - suffragium
20. The right to make contracts - commercium
21. The right to make a legal mariage - conubium
22. Falsum
23. that of the mother
24. that of the mother
25. Foreigners who lived in conquered lands and served as auxiliary troops to the Roman army

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