Lex Aelia Sentia

The Lex Aelia Sentia was a first-class law adopted in ancient Rome in 4 AD. It was adopted by the concilium plebis on the influence of Emperor Augustus, and together with the Lex Fufia Caninia adopted five years earlier, brought various restrictions on the release of slaves (manumissio).

Their content is mainly handed down by the institutions of Gaius. Thus, she restricted the rights of citizenship to freedmen and declared void liberations. The Lex Aelia Sentia also introduced the so-called accusatio ingrati liberti, an otherwise unspecified form of the prosecution of freedmen against their former slaves. Edit sourcetext Edit source text

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