El ius Latii y la legislación municipal Flavia

Abstract

This paper analyses the relation between ius Latii and municipal legislation. It will include a critical appraisal of the various interpretations currently in use on this issue, and two main ideas are defended. On the one hand, the municipalising capacity of the ius Latii and the existence of a provincial Latin condicio. On the other hand, Flavian municipal laws served primarily both the administrative reorganisation of the municipalities and the enhancement of jurisdictional empowerment at the local level. Finally, there is no evidence to demonstrate a causal relation between the process than turned a peregrine civitas into a municipium (requiring little legal engineering and very few pre-requisites for the affected community), and the later, much more complex, legislative codifications that are the municipal laws.