togati

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togati - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TOGATI. Rom. civ, law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the 
  usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it 
  whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This 
  denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial 
  constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, 
  consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those 
  acts.