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The lex Poetelia Papiria was a law passed in Ancient Rome that abolished the contractual form of nexum, or debt bondage. Livy dates the law in 326 BC, during the third consulship of Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus, but Varro dates the law in 313 BC, during the dictatorship of Poetelius's son.

See also

• Roman law
• List of Roman laws

References

1. A. Arthur Schiller (1978). Roman Law: Mechanisms of Development. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 209–. ISBN 978-90-279-7744-1.
2. Livy, History of Rome VIII.28, "The Perseus Digital Library". Retrieved on May 10, 2007.
3. Varro. On the Latin Language: Book VII. Trans. Roland G. Kent. On the Latin Language I: Books V-VII. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1938. pp. 359-361

External links

• The Roman Law Library, incl. Leges

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