The lower or hundred courts (judicia minora, see nos.
He presided over the judicia majora, and appointed Schultheissen to preside over the judicia minora.
The courts of the count were called the greater courts (judicia majora) and had jurisdiction over property, criminal actions of a serious character, and suits to recover serfs.
The chief of these quaestiones or judicia publica was the court which tried cases for extortion, established in the first instance by a Lex Calpurnia, and possibly reconstituted before this epoch by a Junian law.
It is possible that prosecutions for corruption before the judicia populi are meant.
This law of Gracchus about the judicia is a difficult subject, owing to the conflicting evidence.
For Pompeius restored the tribunate[229] to the people, and he allowed the judicia to be again transferred to the Equites by a law.
Footnote 230: A Cornelia Lex, passed in the time of Sulla, made the Judices in the Judicia Publica eligible only out of the body of Senators.
There is a dispute as to the meaning of the term Judicia Populi, to which kind of Judicia the Lex Cassia applied.
Tiberius founded his despotism upon the judicia majestatis, or accusations of high treason, now become an engine of terror, the senate also sharing his guilt with a pusillanimity and servility which knew no bounds.
After completely abolishing the judicia majestatis, he made the restoration of the free Roman constitution, so far as it was compatible with a monarchical form, his peculiar care.
Judicia Dei sunt ita recondita ut quis illa scrutari nullatenus possit=--The purposes of God are so abstruse that no one can possibly scrutinise them.
Sidenote: Restoration of the Judicia to the Senate.
Senators like Scaurus he courted by handing over the judicia once more to the Senate, while, by admitting 300 equites to the Senate, he hoped to compensate them for the wound which he thus inflicted on their material interests and their pride.
Thus those who wanted land or grain were constrained to vote for the changes in the judicia also.
Scaurus had been impeached for taking bribes in Asia, and it is said that in his disgust he egged on Drusus to restore thejudicia to the Senate.
The judicia have been often mentioned, and something maybe said about them here.
He filled Italy and Rome with his own partisans, and therefore with those of the Senate, and he gave back to the Senate that coveted possession of the judicia for which it had struggled so long with the equites.
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