Comitia
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Comitia Calata · Comitia Curiata · Comitia Tributa · Comitia Centuriata · Court of Registration · Sovereign Assembly of the People · the Patrician Assembly · the Popular Assembly
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The Roman popular assemblies, described in the historical introduction for their legislative and judicial roles, including the Comitia Calata which heard testaments.
The Court consisted, in the earlier procedure at Rome which never became wholly extinct during the Republic, of a magistrate representing the State, or of the State itself in the form of the Sovereign Assembly of the People;
Amongst subjects included in this sketch, which have little direct bearing on the history of Roman Law, I may mention the descriptions of the structure of the different Comitia at Rome and the account of the manner in which the powers of the Princeps were conferred.
The definition which we possess of the Comitia Tributa (Laelius Felix ap.
Ancient Law
The Roman legislative assembly in its several forms, source of all delegated criminal jurisdiction.
The Comitia Centuriata could therefore inflict capital punishment.
One immediate result was that the Comitia continued to exercise criminal jurisdiction by way of bill of pains and penalties, long after the Quæstiones had been established.
It seems, however, that from an early period the Comitia had occasionally delegated its criminal jurisdiction to a Quæstio or Commission, which bore much the same relation to the Assembly which a Committee of the House of Commons bears to the House itself, except that the Roman Commissioners or Quæstores did not merely report to the Comitia, but exercised all powers which that body was itself in t …