Lex Plaetoria
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In Roman law, a Lex Plaetoria is a law (lex) introduced by someone with the family name Plaetorius.
The Lex Plaetoria de iurisdictione (after 242 BC, but before 200 BC)[1] was introduced as a plebiscite (plebiscitum) by the tribune M. Plaetorius.[2] The law is significant in the history of the praetorship, but the textual difficulties of the passage in which it is most fully described leave room for varying interpretation. The law required the urban praetor to make himself available to administer justice for the people (populus), probably in the Comitium, all day, until dusk.[3] It is assumed to have redefined the duties of the praetor as established by the Twelve Tables, perhaps because of the recent creation of the praetor peregrinus. It specifies that the praeter urbanus administered justice inter cives, "among citizens," in contrast to the praetor inter peregrinos, among foreigners. This assumption dates the Lex Plaetoria to 242 BC or after, but the dating is problematic because the Plaetorii are not known to have been prominent in public life until after 200.[4] The law also provided the urban praetor with two lictors while he was exercising his jurisdiction.[5]