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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... question you should continually think about as you read the materials in this Casebook, but it is worth the effort to set down here some preliminary observations and concerns. First, it is hard for a modern reader to escape the feeling ...
... question you should continually think about as you read the materials in this Casebook, but it is worth the effort to set down here some preliminary observations and concerns. First, it is hard for a modern reader to escape the feeling ...
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... question. Roman family law was constructed around a certain mental image of what a “typical” Roman household was like. The jurists did try to define familia (see Case 4), but in general, and quite wisely, they put little trust in such ...
... question. Roman family law was constructed around a certain mental image of what a “typical” Roman household was like. The jurists did try to define familia (see Case 4), but in general, and quite wisely, they put little trust in such ...
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... 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 Three Things That We Have.” The jurist Paul identifies the three basic ...
... 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 Three Things That We Have.” The jurist Paul identifies the three basic ...
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... question: “Who can marry whom?” Such capacity requirements regularly specify minimum ages and appropriate conditions of mental and physical health, and they also often prohibit, for instance, incestuous marriages or polygamy. Second are ...
... question: “Who can marry whom?” Such capacity requirements regularly specify minimum ages and appropriate conditions of mental and physical health, and they also often prohibit, for instance, incestuous marriages or polygamy. Second are ...
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... house”). So how is her status in the meantime to be legally described? The Case hinges on the answer to this question. 3. Adultery. Under the lex Iulia de adulteriis of 18 Capacity to Marry 27 Section 1. Capacity to Marry.
... house”). So how is her status in the meantime to be legally described? The Case hinges on the answer to this question. 3. Adultery. Under the lex Iulia de adulteriis of 18 Capacity to Marry 27 Section 1. Capacity to Marry.
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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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