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lex Cornelia

n. [Latin] Roman law. One of several laws passed by the dictator L. Cornelius Sulla. -Also termed Cornelian law.

lex Cornelia de aedictis

n. [Latin] Roman law. The law forbidding a praetor from departing, during his term of office, from the edict he had promulgated at the term's commencement.

lex Cornelia de falso

n. [Latin] Roman law. The Cornelian law, passed by the dictator Sulla, providing that the same penalty should attach to forgery of a testament by one in captivity as to forgery of a testament made in one's own country. - Also termed lex Cornelia de falsis.

lex Cornelia de injuriis

n. [Latin] Roman law. The Cornelian law providing a civil action for the recovery of a penalty in certain cases of bodily injury and violent invasion of property. -Also spelled lex Cornelia de iniuriis. "Lex Cornelia de iniuriis Punished three kinds of injury committed by violence: pulsare (beating), verberare (striking, causing pains) and domum introire (forcible invasion of another's domicile)." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 549 (1953).

lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneicis

n. [Latin] Roman law. The Cornelian law, passed by the dictator Sulla, addressing assassins and poisoners and containing provisions making the killing of another's slave punishable by death or exile. ( The act was extended by Emperor Antoninus Pius to include a master who killed his own slave.

lex Cornelia de sponsu

n. [Latin] Roman law. A law prohibiting one from acting as surety for the same debtor to the same creditor in the same year for more than a specified amount.