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curule aedile

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In aedile
In 366 two curule (“higher”) aediles were created. These were at first patricians; but those of the next year were plebeians and so on year by year alternately until, in the 2nd century bc, the system of alternation between classes ceased. They were elected in the assembly of…
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role in commercial law

In Roman law: Written and unwritten law
The curule aediles, who were the magistrates responsible for the care and supervision of the markets, also issued edicts. During the later stages of the republic, these praetorian and magisterial edicts became an instrument of legal reform, and leges ceased to be a major source of…
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