Women in Roman Law and SocietyThe legal situation of the women of ancient Rome was extremely complex, and - since there was no sharp distinction between free woman, freedwoman and slave - the definition of their legal position is often heard. Basing her lively analysis on detailed study of literary and epigraphic material, Jane F. Gardner explores the provisions of the Roman laws as they related to women. |
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... children, or freedwomen who had borne four, and who were sui iuris ('independent', in the sense of being subject to the ... child was, from birth, subject to the control (potestas) of the father, 1 either as filiusfamilias (son) or ...
... children, if legitimate, belonged to the familia of their father; if illegitimate, they were sui iuris. The powers of ... Child exposure was practised, and was not made illegal until A.D. 374, although the evidence does not allow us to ...
... child's person was the right of sale or surrender. Originally this included the right to sell a child into actual slavery, but this was obsolete by the end of the Republic, except for noxal surrender. The paterfamilias was legally ...
... child as his. The other form of adoption, adrogatio, was used only in the case of persons already sui iuris. In form, it was a legislative act, carried out by thirty magisterial lictors, representing the curiate assembly of the Roman ...
... children). 38 The ascription of motives, however, in anything to do with the transmission of property through Roman women is always dangerous, because, private sentiments apart, the interests of the man as father tended to conflict with ...
Contents
Some Effects of Marriage | |
Divorce | |
Dowry | |
Sexual Offences | |
Children | |
Inheritance and Bequest | |
Slaves and Freedwomen | |
Women at Work | |
The Emancipation of Roman Women | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |