Rome’s plebeian families obtain theoretical parity with the patrician families under the Lex Hortensia passed in 287 and named after Quintus Hortensius, the dictator who had been appointed to deal with what will prove to have been the final secession of the plebeians.

This ends the city’s age-old Conflict of the Orders, but few plebeians can actually afford to become politically active.

The Lex Hortensia gives the vote of the Concilium Plebis or "Council of the Plebeians" the force of law, making laws passed by the plebeian assemblies binding on patricians and plebeians alike and in fact making the Council of the Plebeians a leading body for approving Roman laws.

The Roman law of Delict is codified in the Lex Aquilia, one of the first plebiscites, which provides compensation to the owners of property injured by the fault of another.