Leges Manilianae
Leges Manilianae (Cic. de Orat. 1.58, 246). These were not statutes at all, but forms which it was prudent for parties to observe in contracts of sale, whence they are called actiones by Varro, de Re Rust. 2.5, 11. They seem to have been invented by a jurist called M‘. Manilius, who was consul B.C. 149.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.