Lex Cornelia
Lex Cornelia DE REJECTIONE JUDICUM allowed an accused senator the right of challenging a larger number of his judges than persons of lower rank, the latter's challenges being limited to three (Cic. in Verr. 2.31, 77; see Orelli's Onomasticon).
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.