A Casebook on Roman Family LawOxford University Press, 6. 11. 2003 - 529 strán (strany) The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family. From the early Roman Empire (30 B.C. to about A.D. 250) there survive many legal sources that describe Roman households, often in the most intimate detail. The subject matter of these ancient sources includes marriage and divorce, the property aspects of marriage, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of Roman orphans. This casebook presents 235 representative texts drawn largely from Roman legal sources, especially Justinian's Digest. These cases and the discussion questions that follow provide a good introduction to the basic legal problems associated with the ordinary families of Roman citizens. The arrangement of materials conveys to students an understanding of the basic rules of Roman family law while also providing them with the means to question these rules and explore the broader legal principles that underlie them. Included cases invite the reader to wrestle with actual Roman legal problems, as well as to think about Roman solutions in relation to modern law. In the process, the reader should gain confidence in handling fundamental forms of legal thinking, which have persisted virtually unchanged from Roman times until the present. This volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, biographies of the jurists, basic bibliographies of useful secondary literature, and a detailed introduction to the scholarly topics associated with Roman family law. A course based on this casebook should be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand better Roman social history, either as part of a larger Classical Civilization curriculum or as a preparation for law school. |
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... example, can hardly have been altogether missing from the Roman world, but they are rarely even alluded to in Roman legal sources; and in general the Roman lawyers seem, if not blind, then at least myopic when 4 Introduction.
... example, can hardly have been altogether missing from the Roman world, but they are rarely even alluded to in Roman legal sources; and in general the Roman lawyers seem, if not blind, then at least myopic when 4 Introduction.
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... example, it cannot have been at all unusual for Roman children to be orphaned at a very tender age, so that for a great many Romans the awesome power of the pater familias ended well before they reached full adulthood. Furthermore ...
... example, it cannot have been at all unusual for Roman children to be orphaned at a very tender age, so that for a great many Romans the awesome power of the pater familias ended well before they reached full adulthood. Furthermore ...
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... example is Case 56, a legal problem resulting from the amalgamation of a husband's and a wife's slaves within a single dwelling. But Roman masters also commonly freed their urban slaves, which led to fresh problems; for instance, an ex ...
... example is Case 56, a legal problem resulting from the amalgamation of a husband's and a wife's slaves within a single dwelling. But Roman masters also commonly freed their urban slaves, which led to fresh problems; for instance, an ex ...
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... example, their capacity to own property, write wills, make contracts, bring private lawsuits, and so on. This law of personal status was highly developed in Rome, in large measure because the institution of slavery was widespread but ...
... example, their capacity to own property, write wills, make contracts, bring private lawsuits, and so on. This law of personal status was highly developed in Rome, in large measure because the institution of slavery was widespread but ...
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... example, we know that press gangs occasionally seized free Romans and sold them into slavery, often to buyers who were unaware of the truth about their condition; a Roman citizen, caught in such a situation, was legally unable to ...
... example, we know that press gangs occasionally seized free Romans and sold them into slavery, often to buyers who were unaware of the truth about their condition; a Roman citizen, caught in such a situation, was legally unable to ...
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Chapter III Patria Potestas | 189 |
Chapter IV Succession | 321 |
Chapter V Tutelage and the Status of Children and Women | 423 |
Biographies of the Major Roman Jurists | 471 |
Glossary of Technical Terms | 479 |
Suggested Further Reading | 489 |
Bibliography on the Roman Family | 491 |
Index of Sources | 495 |
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