Lex Julia
Lex Julia DE FENORE (or DE PECUNIIS MUTUIS or CREDITIS), passed by Julius Caesar when dictator, B.C. 49. It compromised the claims of creditors and debtors by estimating property at the value it had held before the depreciation occasioned by the Civil War, and compelling the creditors to take it at this valuation; and by allowing debts to be discharged without payment of the accumulated interest. It was calculated that the creditors lost about one-fourth of what was their due (Caes. Civ. 3.1; Sueton. Jul. 42; Plut. Caes. 37; Appian, App. BC 2.48).
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