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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... Marry Case 7: Less Than Minimum Age 27 Case 8: The Ability to Procreate 29 Case 9: Conubium 31 Case 10: Legal Impediments 34 Case 11: Incestuous Marriage 36 Case 12: Incentives to Marry and Reproduce 39 Section 2. Agreement and Marital ...
... Marry Case 7: Less Than Minimum Age 27 Case 8: The Ability to Procreate 29 Case 9: Conubium 31 Case 10: Legal Impediments 34 Case 11: Incestuous Marriage 36 Case 12: Incentives to Marry and Reproduce 39 Section 2. Agreement and Marital ...
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... 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 Roman world. Further, slaves are ...
... 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 Roman world. Further, slaves are ...
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... marry? And so on. The Roman jurists necessarily spent much time discussing such questions, but they are of more modest concern to us, since we will ordinarily assume, simplistically, that we are dealing only with Roman citizens. 2. “The ...
... marry? And so on. The Roman jurists necessarily spent much time discussing such questions, but they are of more modest concern to us, since we will ordinarily assume, simplistically, that we are dealing only with Roman citizens. 2. “The ...
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... marry (Case 7) and to write wills for themselves (Case 173). Does the Roman age of adulthood strike you as too early? What social conditions can help determine what age is best? CHAPTER II Marriage In a famous and much debated fragment ...
... marry (Case 7) and to write wills for themselves (Case 173). Does the Roman age of adulthood strike you as too early? What social conditions can help determine what age is best? CHAPTER II Marriage In a famous and much debated fragment ...
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... marry, and who have the necessary agreements, can then go about marrying. The process of marriage typically falls into two stages: the couple must first obtain a marriage license (the government uses licensing mainly to implement its ...
... marry, and who have the necessary agreements, can then go about marrying. The process of marriage typically falls into two stages: the couple must first obtain a marriage license (the government uses licensing mainly to implement its ...
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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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