Women in Roman Law & Society"The book meets the highest standards of scholarly rigor, and treatment of disputed issues is informative without being esoteric. An excellent general survey and introduction." -- Choice ..". will be enormously useful for those interested in teaching courses on Roman women or Roman law." -- The Classical Outlook |
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Page 185
... praetorian rules . How early the querela was first used against a mother's will is not known - possibly not until after the establishment of the praetorian rules of succession . The earliest reference to a child claiming possession ...
... praetorian rules . How early the querela was first used against a mother's will is not known - possibly not until after the establishment of the praetorian rules of succession . The earliest reference to a child claiming possession ...
Page 190
... praetorian edict , and then from Hadrian onwards by pieces of legislation . The general trend was to give less weight to the claims of agnates and more to those of natural blood relations . For most of the Republic , however , the civil ...
... praetorian edict , and then from Hadrian onwards by pieces of legislation . The general trend was to give less weight to the claims of agnates and more to those of natural blood relations . For most of the Republic , however , the civil ...
Page 198
... praetorian edict , and Hadrian expressly allowed soldiers ' children some rights to inherit from their fathers . So long as woman had taken the trouble to make sworn declarations , she would have had no difficulty in proving that she ...
... praetorian edict , and Hadrian expressly allowed soldiers ' children some rights to inherit from their fathers . So long as woman had taken the trouble to make sworn declarations , she would have had no difficulty in proving that she ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Guardianship of Women | 5 |
Marriage | 31 |
Copyright | |
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