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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... least generally familiar, Roman family law was organized and developed on lines that are radically, and at times almost breathtakingly, different from any modern legal system. On one level, then, students are invited to think about a ...
... least generally familiar, Roman family law was organized and developed on lines that are radically, and at times almost breathtakingly, different from any modern legal system. On one level, then, students are invited to think about a ...
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... least the time of Aristotle, family life has been understood as essential to a complete human life; and family law, in turn, fosters this human good by reducing the uncertainties and inequities that are frequently associated with more ...
... least the time of Aristotle, family life has been understood as essential to a complete human life; and family law, in turn, fosters this human good by reducing the uncertainties and inequities that are frequently associated with more ...
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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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... least myopic when it comes to the possibility that the pater familias might misuse his considerable power over people and things. In truth, for every juristic ruling on child custody or parental discipline, there are a hundred or more ...
... least myopic when it comes to the possibility that the pater familias might misuse his considerable power over people and things. In truth, for every juristic ruling on child custody or parental discipline, there are a hundred or more ...
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... least in legal theory, a little monarchy, with strict rules as to who was subject to the monarch's power and who was not. This monarchy dissipated only on the death of a pater familias, to be replaced by new familiae governed by the ...
... least in legal theory, a little monarchy, with strict rules as to who was subject to the monarch's power and who was not. This monarchy dissipated only on the death of a pater familias, to be replaced by new familiae governed by the ...
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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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A Casebook on Roman Family Law Bruce W. Frier,Thomas A. J. McGinn,Thomas A. McGinn Obmedzený náhľad - 2004 |
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