Lex Plautia
Lex Plautia or PLOTIA JUDICIARIA, B.C. 89, enacted that fifteen persons should be selected annually from each tribe, without reference to their rank, to act as judges in criminal trials. It was repealed by the Lex Cornelia judiciaria of Sulla (Cic. pro Cornel. fragm. 27; Ascon. in Cornel. p. 79).
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.