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Lex Cornelia

Lex Cornelia DE INJURIIS, B.C. 81, perhaps a statute of Sulla. Its original object was the criminal prosecution of injuriae (assaults and batteries) quae manu fiant (Dig. 47, 10, 5, pr.); but by gradual usage a civil action was developed under its provisions, which had the advantage over the ordinary actio injuriarum in not being barred by a year's prescription (Dig. 47, 10, 37, 1; Inst. 4.4, 8). [INJURIA]

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.