Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

lex Junia Norbana

n. [Latin] Roman law. A law granting certain freedom status to improperly manumitted slaves but not full rights of citizenship; a law granting rights of latini Juniani. See LATINI JUNIANI. "After the lex Junia Norbana, we find the following classes of persons, under the division of the law of persons into free men or slaves: 1. Ingenui, or persons born free. 2. Libertini ex-slaves who, on gaining their freedom, became cives. 3. Latini Juniani ex-slaves who, on manumission and by reason of some defect therein, became something short of full citizens. 4. Dediticii . .. . 5. Slaves proper." R.W. Leage, Roman Priuate Law 70 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).