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 prohibition in the Twelve Tables, allowing marriage between patricians and plebeians, with children inheriting the father's class. The Lex Canuleia created the Equestrian or Knight class, the hybrid of patricians and plebeians.
[edit] Other names
- Lex de conubio patrum et plebis
