Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

dediticii

n. [Latin "those who have surrendered"] Roman law. Enemies who on surrender were granted their freedom or by the Lex Aelia Sentia, slaves (esp. criminals) who on being freed were denied citizenship. ( Justinian abolished this status. - Also spelled dedititii. "Slaves who before manumission had been subjected to degrading punishment (e.g. had been branded or made to fight in the arena) were given, on manumission, a special status, viz. that of enemies surrendered at discretion (dediticii). A dediticius, though free and not a slave, had none of the rights of a citizen, could never under any circumstances better his position (e.g. become a citizen), and was not allowed to live within 100 miles of Rome." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 67 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1942).