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Lex Julia

Lex Julia DE FUNDO DOTALI, a chapter of the Lex Julia de adulteriis: it absolutely prohibited mortgages of Italian land which formed part of a dos by the husband, and allowed its alienation only with the wife's consent. It was commented on by Papinian, Ulpian, and Paulus (Gaius, 2.63; Inst. 2.8, pr.; Paul. Sent. rec. 2.21, 2; Dig. 23, 5). See ADULTERIUM

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.