senatus consultum
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The election of a magistrate, or the passing of a law, though made on the ground of a senatus consultum, yet required the sanction of the curiae.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
The practice seems to have been, in case of tribunician veto, to take the vote, which remained as an auctoritas senatus, but was not a senatus consultum unless the tribune was induced to withdraw.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
A part of the territory of Liguria and Cisalpine Gaul was confiscated and a senatus consultum ordered a distribution of this land to the commons.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew
Later, ratification was granted according to ancestral precedent to the resolution in question, and the latter obtained the name of senatus consultum.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
In legislative measures, a senatus consultum was brought before the people by the consul, or the senator who originated the measure, after it had previously been exhibited in public for seventeen days.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John
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