Lex Plaetoria
Lex Plaetoria allowed the praetor to fix any time he pleased for the termination of legal proceedings, the Twelve Tables having enacted that they should not close till sunset (Varro, L. L. 6.5; Censorin. de Die Nat. 24).
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.