Lex Marcia
Lex Marcia circ. 352 B.C., prescribed the procedure per manus injectionem against feneratores for recovering from them four times any sum which they had taken by way of illegal interest (Gaius, 4.23; Liv. 7.21).
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.