Comitia Curiata
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populus · the people
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Institutes of Roman Law
Originally patrician assembly that came to admit members of the Plebs.
and the Comitia Curiata, originally patrician, must soon have come to admit members of the Plebs.
Women were incapable of Adrogation, because this solemnity involved a formal assembly of the Comitia Curiata;
Hence the tradition that the early tribunes were elected in the Comitia Curiata (Liv.
Ancient Law
The ancient Roman assembly of kinship groups whose consent was required to legalize adoption or confirm a will.
The consent of the whole brotherhood required for his admission may remind us of the consent which the Comitia Curiata, the Parliament of that larger brotherhood of self-styled kinsmen, the ancient Roman commonwealth, so strenuously insisted on as essential to the legalisation of an Adoption or the confirmation of a Will.