The Lex Aurelia iudicaiaria was a Roman law, introduced by the praetor Lucius Aurelius Cotta in 70 BC.
The law defined the composition of the jury of the court investigating extortion, corruption and misconduct in office, the perpetual quaestio de repetundis.
[2][3] The quaestio de repetundis was the first permanent court established in Rome, set up in 149 BC to deal with embezzlement by Roman magistrates, most often, but not exclusively from their provincial subjects.
Verres was the last person judged under the system put in place by Sulla, where jury was chosen by lot from among the senators.
[4] Under the terms of the legislation the jury for the quaestio was to have the following composition: one-third of it must be composed of senators, a third of equites, a third by tribuni aerarii.