MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO


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Manius Acilius Glabrio

THE SAME CASE NOT TO BE TRIED TWICE. There shall be no second action under this law against a person who is condemned or is acquitted in accordance with this law, except as regards some later act or some act of collusion or as regards the assessment of damages or of penalties specified in this law ...
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This is one of the earliest prohibitions on ‘double jeopardy’.

Manius Acilius Glabrio

THOSE PERSONS WHO Are Not To Be Tried While They Hold a Magistracy or the Imperium: A dictator, consul, praetor, master of the horse, censor, aedile, plebeian tribune, quaestor, triumvir capitalis, triumvir for granting and assigning lands, or military tribune in any of the first four legions shall not be summoned to court as long as he holds a magistracy or the imperium ... It is not the intent of this law that anyone of those who retires from such magistracy or command shall not be summoned to court.
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This law is the basis of many in the world to this day, including the United States. The law allowed Romans whose property had been unlawfully confiscated to recover from the person who took the property by bringing a case in the Roman Courts. This law exempted the highest public officials from being brought before the courts while they were serving their term of office, but as the quoted clause indicates, these high officials were not above the law and could be summoned to court AFTER their term of office.

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Manius Acilius Glabrio was the name (tria nomina) used by several ancient Roman men of the gens Acilia, including: