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Another law was issued on November 6 to strengthen the magistracy of the decurions.

De curialibus et de agnatione vel distractione praediorum et de ceteris negotiis, " Decurions, Their Children and The Sale of Their Landed Estates " ( Novella Maioriani 7 ), was issued to forgive past abuses perpetrated by the decurions, but forbade them to leave their status, either going into hiding or marrying slave or tenant farmers, and to alienate their own properties.