La formula ‘utei quoi optuma lege’ nella l. 27 della lex agraria del 111 a.C.: elementi per una rilettura politica e giuridico-costituzionale

The essay discusses the thesis of a possible political and juridical-constitutional meaning of the formula ut qui optima lege present in l. 27 of the epigraphic agrarian law of 111 BC The legislator may have used this formula not to distinguish a category of land ownership free from public or private charges of any kind, but to sanction the will and legitimacy of the legislator to confer full dominical title by law to the holders of the assigned ager privatus, with magistrates with adequate power. A dominical affiliation conferred therefore outside the traditional rules of the quiritary domain (hereditas, mancipatio, in iure cessio, etc.), but legitimate from the point of view of the ius publicum. A ‘plenissimum ius’ conferred ope legis or ‘by virtue of the maximum powers conferred by the law’ (l. 27: utei quoi optuma lege privatus est, esto).