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II. The judicial board of decemvirs (stlitibus judicandis) formed a civil court of ancient origin concerned mainly with questions bearing on the status of individuals.
- ↑ Colognesi, Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth.
- ↑ Suetonius, "The Life of Augustus", 36.