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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... matter and presented in a definite order, usually so that legal questions can be explored on a progressively deeper basis. It is important to think about the interrelationship between the Cases and the various approaches that the ...
... matter and presented in a definite order, usually so that legal questions can be explored on a progressively deeper basis. It is important to think about the interrelationship between the Cases and the various approaches that the ...
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... matters is in some respects similar to our own and in other respects sharply different. What explains the differences? Do they result chiefly from the relative social and economic “underdevelopment” of the Roman world or from deeper ...
... matters is in some respects similar to our own and in other respects sharply different. What explains the differences? Do they result chiefly from the relative social and economic “underdevelopment” of the Roman world or from deeper ...
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... Matters Case 235: Sexual Harassment 468 467 Appendix: 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 Classroom Notes The ...
... Matters Case 235: Sexual Harassment 468 467 Appendix: 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 Classroom Notes The ...
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... matter of its instrumental role in promoting social welfare and demographic reproduction. Since at least the time of Aristotle, family life has been understood as essential to a complete human life; and family law, in turn, fosters this ...
... matter of its instrumental role in promoting social welfare and demographic reproduction. Since at least the time of Aristotle, family life has been understood as essential to a complete human life; and family law, in turn, fosters this ...
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... matter their age; • his wife, joined to him by astonishingly fragile bonds of matrimony but sharing with him neither in the control nor in the ultimate disposition of the household's wealth except as concerns her own property and her ...
... matter their age; • his wife, joined to him by astonishingly fragile bonds of matrimony but sharing with him neither in the control nor in the ultimate disposition of the household's wealth except as concerns her own property and her ...
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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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