Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Latium maius

n. [Latin] Roman law. The greater rights conferred on the inhabitants of Latium and, later, colonies outside Italy, including a widespread right of Roman citizenship. - Also spelled Latium majus (may jas). - Also termed maius Latium. Cf. LATIUM MINUS. "Under the Principate there is a distinction between Latium maius and Latium minus. The former referred to the rights granted to colonies founded as a coloniae Latinae outside Italy, combined with the concession of Roman citizenship to a larger group of individuals than Latium minus, in which only the municipal magistrates and members of the municipal council . . . were rewarded with Roman citizenship." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 537-38 (1953).