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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... instance, substantially altered the law of intestate succession so as to recognize blood ties running beyond the archaic family structure; these praetorian reforms were furthered by early imperial legislation (Cases 161–170). Many later ...
... instance, substantially altered the law of intestate succession so as to recognize blood ties running beyond the archaic family structure; these praetorian reforms were furthered by early imperial legislation (Cases 161–170). Many later ...
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... instance, an ex-master might wish to marry his freedwoman (Case 14). The presence of slaves is not always obvious in the sources; still, it repays the effort to bear their presence in mind, since slaves were a major capital asset in the ...
... instance, an ex-master might wish to marry his freedwoman (Case 14). The presence of slaves is not always obvious in the sources; still, it repays the effort to bear their presence in mind, since slaves were a major capital asset in the ...
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... instance, that the prevailing scholarly view of the premodern European family bears an uncanny resemblance to the Roman family as it is depicted in the rulings of the Roman jurists. Nor is this resemblance entirely coincidental, since ...
... instance, that the prevailing scholarly view of the premodern European family bears an uncanny resemblance to the Roman family as it is depicted in the rulings of the Roman jurists. Nor is this resemblance entirely coincidental, since ...
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... instance, a free person became a slave (perhaps because of criminal condemnation or enemy capture) or when a slave became a free person (perhaps through manumission by a master); or when a free person changed citizenship (perhaps when a ...
... instance, a free person became a slave (perhaps because of criminal condemnation or enemy capture) or when a slave became a free person (perhaps through manumission by a master); or when a free person changed citizenship (perhaps when a ...
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... instance, barriers were erected to some marriages where the parties were of different statuses (see Case 10). The legal weight that is attached to social stratification increases significantly in the late Empire. CASE 2: Slavery and ...
... instance, barriers were erected to some marriages where the parties were of different statuses (see Case 10). The legal weight that is attached to social stratification increases significantly in the late Empire. CASE 2: Slavery and ...
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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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