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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... Slave Women and Daughters 271 Case 129: Acquiring Property 272 Case 130: Free Administration 274 Case 131: Gifts from a Peculium 277 Case 132: Lending Money 278 Case 133: Defending the Peculium 280 Case 134: Computing the Balance 282 ...
... Slave Women and Daughters 271 Case 129: Acquiring Property 272 Case 130: Free Administration 274 Case 131: Gifts from a Peculium 277 Case 132: Lending Money 278 Case 133: Defending the Peculium 280 Case 134: Computing the Balance 282 ...
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... slaves within a single dwelling. But Roman masters also commonly freed their urban slaves, which led to fresh problems ... slave law is extremely intricate, and we therefore considered it impossible to deal with this subject more than ...
... slaves within a single dwelling. But Roman masters also commonly freed their urban slaves, which led to fresh problems ... slave law is extremely intricate, and we therefore considered it impossible to deal with this subject more than ...
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... slaves. But his power also extends to controlling the lives of those of his descendants related to him through males ... slavery; Roman citizenship; the Roman familia (household); the pater familias; agnatic relationship; and, among free ...
... slaves. But his power also extends to controlling the lives of those of his descendants related to him through males ... slavery; Roman citizenship; the Roman familia (household); the pater familias; agnatic relationship; and, among free ...
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... slavery was widespread but also because, even among free persons residing in the Roman Empire, many were not Roman ... slave became a free person (perhaps through manumission by a master); or when a free person changed citizenship ...
... slavery was widespread but also because, even among free persons residing in the Roman Empire, many were not Roman ... slave became a free person (perhaps through manumission by a master); or when a free person changed citizenship ...
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... slaves. As a matter of basic legal principle, free persons cannot be owned, while, as Florentinus emphasizes, ownership is the very essence of slavery. Slaves are thought to have constituted about a sixth of the population of Roman ...
... slaves. As a matter of basic legal principle, free persons cannot be owned, while, as Florentinus emphasizes, ownership is the very essence of slavery. Slaves are thought to have constituted about a sixth of the population of Roman ...
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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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