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centumviri

In ancient Rome, a panel from which juries were chosen to form a civil court. The panel numbered 105 under the republic and 180 under the empire.

Sometimes the court sat as a whole body, but usually it sat in sections. Its jurisdiction was purely in civil law, and covered matters of property and inheritance.
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