Proscriptions against Christianity began in 1587 and outright persecutions in 1597. Colonial charters and laws contained specific proscriptions against Roman Catholics. Colonial charters and laws often contained specific proscriptions against Catholics. The legal proscriptions against pornography, therefore, derive from the nation's penal code. The norms are expressed in the form of prescriptions, proscriptions, preferences, and permissions. The triumvirs included him in their proscriptions. Crassus bought property that was confiscated in proscriptions. The theoretical proscriptions concerning the nundinae were not always observed. He was the only victim of the Triumvirate's proscriptions to be displayed in that manner. Sulla's proscriptions saw hundreds of his political enemies killed or exiled. Cicero was the only victim of the proscriptions who was displayed in that manner. The Bible records various proscriptions and instances of the death penalty. He enriched himself during Sulla's proscriptions. Three thousand supporters were subsequently arrested and put to death in the proscriptions that followed.