Lex Aebutia
Lex Aebutia enacted probably about B.C. 170 (for the various views as to its precise date see Rudorff, Rechtsgeschichte, 1.44, p. 106; Padelletti, Hist. Roman Law, ch. 32, note 2): it abolished the legis actio procedure except in suits tried before centumviri, in cases of damnum infectum, and for the voluntary jurisdiction employed for adoptions, manumissions, in jure cessio, &c. (Gellius, 16.10, 8; Gaius, 4.31). [JUDEX; ACTIO.] Another lex of the same name prohibited the proposer of a lex which created any office or power (curatio ac potestas) from having such office or power, and even excluded his collegae, cognati and affines (Cic. de lege agr. [in Rull.] 2.8, 21; de Domo, 20, 51).
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