LEX PAPIA POPPEA

By SovConn | August 28, 2013

lex Papia Poppea (leks pay-pee-<<schwa>> pah-pee-<<schwa>>). [Latin] Roman law. A law proposed by the consuls Papius and Poppeus at the request of Augustus. • It is usu. considered with the lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus as one law. — Also termed Papian law; Poppean law. See lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus under LEX JULIA.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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