The specific sending of praefecti iure dicundo, urban praetor's delegates in cives sine suffragio unicipia, allows considering there an introduction and application of the Roman law. These municipia are nevertheless characterized by their own law. Indeed, excepted in some fields where it is automatically enforced, the Roman law is otherwise adopted at the end of a procedure of voluntary adherence
... [Show full abstract] from the municipia, the fundi factio. Nevertheless, this legal autonomy is strongly called in question again by the praefecti iure dicundo's iuris dictio. It allows them to apply to the municipia the distinction in two phases of the Roman civil procedure: in iure and in iudicio. It is this power to organize, as in Rome, the trials and to send back them in front of local judges selected among the senators, which leads to a progressive and non authoritarian romanisation of the local laws.