User:Tannertsf/Historical Documents/Pre 18th Century/Acilian Law on the Right to Recovery of Property Offically Extorted, 122 B.C.

1. MANIUS ACILIUS ... plebeian tribunes duly proposed to the plebs, and the plebs duly resolved on the day before ... tribe ... was the first to vote, and ... cast the first vote for the tribe ...

2. IF FROM ANYONE of the allies either of the Latin name or of foreign nations, or from anyone of those dependent on the discretion, dictation, power, or friendship of the Roman people ... in any single year property amounting to more than ... sesterces in value has been taken, seized, exacted, procured, or appropriated from such person himself or the king or his people or his father, or from anyone who is or has been in his or his father's family, or in bondage to them, or of whom he or his father or his son is heir, by a person in the exercise of his command or power who was dictator, consul, praetor, master of the horse, censor, aedile, plebeian tribune, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, triumvir for granting and assigning lands, military tribune in any of the first four legions, or who is the son of one of these, or who is himself a senator or his father is one: with regard to this matter the wrong person shall have the right to bring suit and report the name of the offender. The praetor shall have jurisdiction over the proceedings, and the trial, judegement, and assessment of damages shall be by the terms of this law in the competence of those persons who constitute the trial court according to this law. ...If anyone asserts that the praetor has not accepted the name of a defendent so reported in accordance with this law, and that a trial has not been granted in accordance of this law so that he might sue: With regard to this matter the plaintiff shall have the right to bring suit and to report the name of the offender and the praetor shall have jurisdiction over the proceedings. The trial, judgement, and assessment of damages shall be by the terms of this law in the competence of those persons who constitute the trial court according to this law. In regard to a person who is judged in accordance with this law, and is accused of having acted contrary to this law, after his case is adjudged, or who is accused collusivelyor whose name is removed from the list of defendants in accordance with this law: if anyone reports his name before the praetor a second time, ... the praetor shall have jurisdiction over the proceedings; and the trial, judgment, and assessment of damages shall be by the terms of this law in the competence of those persons who constitute a trial court according to this law. If