Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Iustitium

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Iustitium

The term by which the Romans designated a legal vacation, or cessation from business in the courts of justice, in the sittings of the Senate, and even in private life, when all the shops were closed. This took place on extraordinary occasions, such as famine, or during the perils of war, and, under the Empire, on the death of a member of the imperial family. It was decreed by the highest magistrate present in Rome, subject to the approval of the Senate. When the occasion had passed by, it was removed by a special edict on the part of the magistrate (Mommsen, Römisches Staatsrecht, i. pp. 263-266).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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