"Comitia" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In Roman law. An assembly, either (1) of the Roman curlse, ln which case it was called the "eomitia curiata vel calata;” or (2) of the Roman centuries, In which case it was called the "eomitia centuriata;” or (3) of the Roman tribes, in which case it was called the "eomitia tribute." only patricians were members of the first eomitia, and only pleblans of the last; hut the eomitia centuriata comprised the entire populace, patricians and plebians both, and was the great legislative assembly passing the leges, properly so called, as the senate passed the senates consulta, and tbe eomitia tribute passed the plcbiscita. Under the Lex Hortensia, 287 B. C., the plebiscitum acquir-ed the force of a lex. Brown
A public assembly of the Roman people for electing
officers or passing laws.
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