The lex Cornelia de maiestate or lex Cornelia Sullae maiestatis is a Roman law presented by dictator Lucio Cornelio Silla and emanated in 81 a.C. to redistribute the case law of crimen maiestatis.
The law punishes all the actions aimed at undermining the institutions of the Republic, entrusting judgment on this criminal case to a permanent court: the Perpetua Quartet de maiestate. Lex Cornelia also established as a crime of wounded majesty the abandonment of his province by a Governor in office, whether or not he left in the arms or not the territories of his own jurisdiction.
The punishment imposed for the crime of wounded majesty was capital punishment, which can be voluntarily exiled with interdicted aqua and igni.
The law also included offenses against magistrates. Notemodify wikitesto Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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