Lex Canuleia
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The Lex Canuleia is a law of the Roman Republic passed in the year 445 BC. Named after the tribune Gaius Canuleius, who proposed it, it abolished a corresponding[clarification needed] prohibition in the Twelve Tables and allowed marriage between patricians and plebeians, with children inheriting the father's social status. It is also referred to in Latin as the Lex de conubio patrum et plebis.
Canuleius also carried through a law that permitted plebeians to hold the office of consul, the highest of the Roman magistracies, which the patricians had retained as their prerogative.
See also[edit]
- Gaius Canuleius
- Ius connubii
- Morganatic marriage
- Roman law
- List of Roman laws
- List of legal Latin terms
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