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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... sources in order to convey a clear understanding of what legal sources are like and how lawyers work. For Roman law, the primary sources are above all the writings of the early imperial jurists. Almost all their writings date to what is ...
... sources in order to convey a clear understanding of what legal sources are like and how lawyers work. For Roman law, the primary sources are above all the writings of the early imperial jurists. Almost all their writings date to what is ...
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... sources: statutes (legislation in various forms) and the Edict of the urban praetor. Some Cases involve juristic interpretation of these fundamental sources. But in most Cases the jurists range well beyond the basic framework into ...
... sources: statutes (legislation in various forms) and the Edict of the urban praetor. Some Cases involve juristic interpretation of these fundamental sources. But in most Cases the jurists range well beyond the basic framework into ...
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... sources is far more intellectually stimulating than lectures or a superficial reading of modern synthetic accounts; students also learn much more about law from the original sources than they could possibly learn from a mere summary. We ...
... sources is far more intellectually stimulating than lectures or a superficial reading of modern synthetic accounts; students also learn much more about law from the original sources than they could possibly learn from a mere summary. We ...
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... and “Inst.” for the Institutes (Institutiones) of Gaius or Justinian, as indicated. Many Cases also come from several postclassical epitomes of juristic sources: the Collatio (a “comparison” of Roman with viii Preface.
... and “Inst.” for the Institutes (Institutiones) of Gaius or Justinian, as indicated. Many Cases also come from several postclassical epitomes of juristic sources: the Collatio (a “comparison” of Roman with viii Preface.
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... sources all derive their substance in large part from earlier classical sources, all have been subjected to postclassical abbreviation. A few Cases are also taken from nonlegal works by Cicero, Quintilian, Aulus Gellius, and other Roman ...
... sources all derive their substance in large part from earlier classical sources, all have been subjected to postclassical abbreviation. A few Cases are also taken from nonlegal works by Cicero, Quintilian, Aulus Gellius, and other 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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