Lex Titia

The Lex Titia was a Roman law passed on November 27, 43 BC, that legalized the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Mark Antony, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. The Lex Titia gave this "three-man commission for restoring the constitution of the republic" (triumviri rei publicae constituendae) the power to make or annul laws without approval from either the Senate or the people; insulated their judicial decisions from appeal, and allowed the Triumvirs to name magistrates at will. Although the constitutional machinery of the Republic was not irrevocably dismantled by the Lex Titia, in the event it never recovered. Lepidus was sidelined early in the triumvirate, and Antony was eliminated in civil war, leaving Octavian the sole leader.