DE BONIS CEDENDIS. This lex provided that a debtor might escape all
personal molestation from his creditors by giving up his property
to them for the purpose of sale and distribution. It is doubtful if
this lex was passed in the time of Julius Caesar or of Augustus,
though probably of the former.
DE CAEDE ET VENEFICIO (Suet. _Ver._ 33), perhaps the same as the
Lex De Vi Publica.
DE CIVITATE was passed in the consulship of L. Julius Caesar and P.
Rutilius Lupus, B.C. 90. [CIVITAS; FOEDERATAE CIVITATES.]
DE FENORE, or rather De Pecuniis Mutuis or Creditis (B.C. 47),
passed in the time of Julius Caesar. The object of it was to make
an arrangement between debtors and creditors, for the satisfaction
of the latter. The possessiones and res were to be estimated at the
value which they had before the civil war, and to be surrendered to
the creditors at that value; whatever had been paid for interest
was to be deducted from the principal. The result was, that the
creditor lost about one-fourth of his debt; but he escaped the loss
usually consequent on civil disturbance, which would have been
caused by novae tabulae.