Centumviri

The Centumviral court (centumviri) was the Chancery court of ancient Rome, a civil court of justice.
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civil law. the citizens of Rome were distributed into thirty-five tribes, and three persons out of each tribe were elected judges, who were called centumviri, although they were one hundred and five in number. They were distributed into four different tribunals, but in certain causes called centumvirales causas, the judgments of the four tribunals were necessary.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

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panel of (about 100) judges chosen annually to decide civil suits (pl.)

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