 The trials were a precursor of the standing court of recovery of property (quaestio de pecuniis repetundis) established by a Calpurnian Law of 149 BC, whose judges were transferred from the patrician aristocracy to the equestrians by Gaius Gracchus in 122 BC.Another deputation from Hispania represented 4,000 men who said that they were sons of Roman soldiers and local women who could not legally marry.They asked that a town be given to them to live in.