Lex Canuleia

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The Lex Canuleia is a law of the Roman Republic passed in the year 445 BC. Named after the tribune Gaius Canuleius, who proposed it, it abolished a corresponding Twelve Tables prohibition, allowing marriage between patricians and plebeians, with children inheriting the father's class.

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  • Lex de conubio patrum et plebis

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