This article considers a scantily examined question of the status of lands in a Roman colony of the mid-1st century B.C. The main source which permits this investigation is the Lex coloniae Genetivae Iuliae seu Ursonensis . A comparison of its evidence with later Roman sources, especially with the treatises of the Roman land surveyors, allowed investigating the questions of structure, legal status and use of the colonial lands. During the period under study, the status of colonial lands in Roman land law was only outlined in general. It had to become more definite both technically and legally with the course of time. However, successful attempts to achieve this were made only in the reign of Emperor Augustus and later under the emperors of the Flavian dynasty.
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