Along with the Lex Fufia Caninia of 2 BC, this law regulated the manumission (freeing from ownership) of slaves.
If a manumitted slave was under age thirty, he could only achieve full citizenship after a legal proceeding (consilia) similar to a family law trial.
Any slave under the age of thirty could achieve full citizenship rights without the need for a consilia if his master was insolvent and agreed to free him.
[2] If a slave was freed under the age of thirty, but was not granted full citizenship rights upon his manumission, he could be granted those full citizenship rights if he married a Roman freedwoman or freewoman, and had with this woman a child who was, at the time, at least one year of age.
A person under the age of twenty could only manumit a slave if he went through the ordinary legal proceeding (consilium).