Lex Decimaria
Lex Decimaria a chapter of the Lex Papia Poppaea, limiting the amount which a wife could take under her husband's will, and vice versâ, if they had no children, to a tenth of what was actually given (Fragm. Vat. 264; Quint. 8.5; Cod. 8, 58, rubr.).
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.