: leges agrariae) was a Roman law which dealt primarily with the viritane allotment of public lands.
Such legislation dealt almost exclusively with public lands which were held by the state and not privately owned.
[1][2] There were other types of Roman laws related to agriculture, including those establishing new colonies and those regulating the holding of public lands (lex de modo agrorum).
[1] The most famous lex agraria was that of the plebeian tribune Tiberius Gracchus, passed in 133 BC, which allotted public lands across Italy to rural plebs.
[3] Such laws were not without precedent, such as the lex Flaminia of 232 BC which authorised viritane distributions of lands in Cisalpine Gaul and Picenum.