Lex Malacitana

Lex Malacitana
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Lex Malacitana or Lex Flavia Malacitana ("Flavian law of Malaca") is a bronze tablet bearing Latin local statutes which deal with the official activities of the duoviri iuri dicundo.[1] The tablet was found in the 20th century near Malaca (modern Málaga) with the lex Salpensana,[2][3] and it was dated from AD 81–84, i.e. the early reign of Domitian.[4] Malaca was governed under this law, which granted free-born persons the privileges of Roman citizenship.[5]

Together with the lex Salpensana and the lex Irnitana it provides the most complete version of the lex Flavia municipalis, or the Flavian municipal law.[6][7] and has allowed new insights into the workings of Roman law.[8] The tablets are exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid.[6] Since the tablets provide the only surviving copy of large parts of the Flavian municipal law, they have provided new insights into the procedural side of municipal courts.[9]

In December 2016 a petition to Congreso de los Diputados was offered to give it back to the Museo de Málaga.[10] The Ministerio de Cultura studied the case,[11] and on 12 March 2018 Spanish Government denied it.[12]

  1. ^ Berger 1953, p. 446.
  2. ^ Berger 1953, p. 559.
  3. ^ Alvar Ezquerra, Jaime (2001). Diccionario de historia de España. Ediciones Akal. p. 388. ISBN 9788470903663.
  4. ^ Vázquez Hoyos, Ana María. "Lex Municipii Malacitani". Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  5. ^ Hartmut Galsterer; Hubert Cancik; Helmuth Schneider. "Lex Malacitana". Brill's New Pauly. Reference. Antiquity volumes. Brill Online. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Lex Irnitana, Encyclopedia of Ancient History"
  7. ^ "The lex Irnitina, a new copy of Flavian Municipal Law", Julian Gonzales
  8. ^ Das römische Zivilprozessrecht, Kaser, Beck, 1996
  9. ^ "The lex Irnitana and procedure in the civil courts", A. Rodger
  10. ^ "La Lex Flavia Malacitana llega al Congreso". Diario Sur (in Spanish). Vocento. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  11. ^ "El PP anuncia que el ministro estudiará que la Lex Flavia Malacitana venga a Málaga". Diario Sur (in Spanish). Vocento. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  12. ^ "El Gobierno rechaza la cesión a Málaga de la Lex Flavia". Diario Sur. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2018. En una respuesta parlamentaria al PSOE, el Ejecutivo se niega al traslado permanente o temporal del acta fundacional de la ciudad