Lex Junia Norbana
Lex Junia Norbana probably A.D. 19 (see Puchta, Institutionen, § 213, note u), created the status of Latinus Junianus by enacting that slaves manumitted otherwise than by one of the manumissiones legitimae, or against the provisions of the Lex Aelia Sentia, should have the rights of Latini (i.e. commercium without conubium). The statute, however, expressly deprived them of the right of making, or taking under a will, or of being testamentary guardians: see AELIA SENTIA LEX; LATINITAS; LIBERTUS; MANUMISSIO. (Gaius, 1.16, 17, 22, &c., 3.56; Ulpian, Reg. i., 20.8, 22.3.)
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.