They remained, however, on the numerous list of the judices selecti, and were liable to be again summoned till the end of the year, when a new set was chosen for the judicial business of the ensuing season.
These were chosen from a list of judices selecti, which was made up from the three orders of senators, knights, and people.
Let the administration of the laws be preserved intact to the Judices Ordinarii.
The body thus composed was to try cases of judices accused of taking bribes.
The praetor, or judex quaestionis, presided over the judicesin each court, and the judices returned a verdict by a majority of votes, sometimes given by ballot, sometimes openly.
But Caius may have proposed that for judicial purposes 600 equites should form, as it were, a second chamber, which, being twice as numerous, would permit two judices for every senatorial judex.
Indeed, it is beyond question that, as the provinces were governed by the senatorial class, judices who had to decide cases like those of Cotta would be more fairly chosen from the equites than from the class to which Cotta belonged.
But whether Caius provided that all the judices or only two-thirds of them should be chosen from the equites, and in whatever way he did so, he did succeed in exalting the moneyed class and abasing the Senate.
Neither dared they till seventeen years later make an attempt to interfere with the selection of the judices from the equestrian order, and even then the attempt failed.
According to some authorities he made the judiceseligible from the equites only, instead of from the Senate.
Plancus challenged Cato as one of the judicesafter the speeches, but nevertheless he was convicted.
The judices voted by ballot, which had been the practice in Rome in such trials since the passing of the Lex Cassia B.
In spite of this decisive testimony, and the evident guilt of the accused, the Judices pronounced him innocent by a majority of voices (B.
Sulla enacted that the Judices should be taken exclusively from the Senators, and not from the Equites, the latter of whom had possessed this privilege, with a few interruptions, from the law of C.
The law by which the Judices were to be taken only from the Equites, and not from the Senators, as had been the custom hitherto.
Cicero remarks (In Verrem, Act Prima, 13) that the judices were selected out of the equites for near fifty years until the functions were restored to the senate.
A judge, generally the praetor, presided, and the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by the judices by a majority of votes; the votes were given by ballot at this time.
Accordingly they were condemned for default of appearance, the judicesbeing compelled to go to the vote.
Plutarch's account of the changes made by Gracchus in the body of the Judices is probably incorrect.
These judices were selected out of the qualified body by lot (at least this was the rule sometimes) for each particular trial.
In the trials for these offences, those who had to decide on the guilt or innocence of the accused, were called judices; and the judices were taken only from the senators.
Lex Aurelia, which determined that the judices for public trials should be chosen from the Senators, Equites and Tribuni AErarii.
Again, being brought to trial he bribed some of the judices, and was acquitted by two votes only, whereon he said that what he had given to one of the judices was fairly wasted, for it was enough to be acquitted by a single vote.
As assessors he had the quaesitor or chief juror, and a certain number of the Judices Selecti of whom some account has been already given.
The judices in the public trials (which must be distinguished from civil causes tried in the praetor's court) were at first taken exclusively from the senators.
The praetors at an early date handed over their authority to other judges, chosen either from the citizens at large, or from the body of Judices Selecti, who were renewed every year.
Instead of the strict probity and perfect independence which we associate with the highest ministers of the law, the Roman judices were often canvassed, bribed, or intimidated.
The office of judices was restored to the Senate, and the equites were deprived of their separate seats at festivals.
Pompey now broke with the aristocracy, whose champion he had been, and even carried another law by which the judices were taken from the equites as well as the Senate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "judices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
