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In Roman law. Laws for the distribution among the people, by public authority, of the lands constituting the public domain, usually territory conquered from an enemy. In common parlance the term is frequently applied to laws which have for their object the more equal division or distribution of landed property; laws for subdividing large properties and increasing the number of landholders.

[L.] (Rom. Hist.) Laws proposed or carried by the plebeians against the patricians, with reference to the distribution of public lands acquired by conquest.