The lex Poetelia Papiria was a law passed in Ancient Rome that abolished the contractual form of nexum, or debt bondage.
[1] Livy dates the law in 326 BC, during the third consulship of Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus,[2] but Varro dates the law in 313 BC, during the dictatorship of Poetelius's son.
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