senatus consultum
senatus consultum (si-nay-t[schwa]s k[schwa]n-s[schwa]l-t[schwa]m). [Latin] Roman law. In the Republic, a resolution of the Roman Senate, which did not have the force of law (though usu. followed). • In the first century A.D., these resolutions replaced the legislation of the comitia, but by the end of the second century, they were merely the Senate’s official […]