Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

concilium plebis

[Latin "assembly of the people"] Roman law. An assembly of the plebs gathered together to enact legislation. - Often shortened to concilium. See PLEBISCITUM. Cf. COMITIA TRIBUTA."Legislation was carried on to some extent by the Comitia Tributa and in an increasing degree by the assembly of the plebs alone, concilium plebis, which, in historical times, was also based on the tributal organisation. This assembly, presided over by a tribune of the plebs, was active from early times and there was early legislation on constitutional questions, enacted by that body and approved by the Senate, which was regarded as binding on the whole community. Its enactments, properly called plebiscita, were often called, as binding on the whole community, leges ...." W.W. Buckland, A Textbook of Roman Law: From Augustus to Justinian 4 (1921).