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Plebiscite Or Plebiscitum

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Plebiscite or Plebiscitum, among the Romans a law enacted by the common people at the request of the tribune or some other plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate; more particularly applied to the law which the people made, when upon some misunderstanding with the senate they retired to the Aventine mount.

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