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lex iulia de maritandis ordinibus
A Roman law enacted 18 B.C., part of Augustus' marriage-code, marrying-age celibates and young widows that won't marry were debarred from receiving inheritances and from attending public games, similar penalties on the married but childless, senators couldn't marry freedwomen, so unpopular that in A.D. 9 consuls M. Papius and Q. Poppaeus tried to modify and complete it (q.v. lex Papia Poppaea), Domitian tried to enforce this law later.
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Language : Latin