CLAUDIA Lex, de Comitibus, was enacted by M. Cl. Marcellus in the year of Rome 702. It ordained, that at public elections of magistrates no notice should be taken of the votes of such as were absent. Another, de Usura, which forbade people to lend money to minors on condition of payment, after the decease of their parents. Another, de Negotiatione, by Q. Claudius the tribune, 535. It forbade any senator or father of a senator to have any vessel containing above 300 amphoræ, for fear of their engaging themselves in commercial schemes. The same law also forbade the same thing to the scribes and the attendants of the questors, as it was naturally supposed that people who had any commercial connexions could not be faithful to their trust, nor promote the interest of the state. Another, 576, to permit the allies to return to their respective cities, after their names were enrolled. Liv. 41. c. 8. Another, to take away the freedom of the city of Rome from the colonists which Cæsar had carried to Novicomum.