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Comitia
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Dies festi, nefasti, et intercisi
De Ling. Lat. vi. 29, 30, edit. Muller; Macrob., Sat. i. 16). On some of the dies fasti comitia could be held, but not on all, Cic., pro Sect. 15, with the note of Manutius. Dies nefasti
Comitial
Relating to the comitia or popular assemblies of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws
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Arrogatio
not be effected by a mere private juristic act like adoptio, but only by a decree of the comitia curiata or later by imperial rescript. Arrogatio was the form of adopting a paterfamilias or homo sui juris,
Civil Law
sole management of State affairs. The Ten Tables they drew up, having been approved by the senate and comitia, were engraved on metal, and suspended in the Comitium, and all parties were so well satisfied with the
Lex
the Roman Law it was a resolution adopted by the old Roman populus (Patricians and Plebeians) in the comitia, on the motion of a magistrate of senatorial rank, as a consul, a pr'tor, or a dictator. The
Quaestor
the beginning of the Republic. Each year two quaestors were nominated by the consuls, later elected by the comitia tributa, to assist the consuls in matters of finance. This continued to be their principal concern, but they
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