Lex Aelia Sentia
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lex Aelia Sentia
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Institutes of Roman Law
Law incapacitating a testator's slave under thirty from direct manumission and heirship.
Again a decree of the senate (rather, the lex Aelia Sentia 1 § 18) incapacitates a testator’s slave under thirty years of age from being enfranchised and instituted heir;
The property of those who under the lex Aelia Sentia are counted as if they were surrendered enemies devolves on their patrons sometimes as if they were freedmen who had Roman citizenship, sometimes as if they were Latini Juniani.
Fraudulent alienations by manumission, whether in fraudem creditorum or in fraudem patroni, were made null and void by the lex Aelia Sentia, 1 § 37.