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Introduction to Roman Family Law 3

Chapter Ⅰ.Basic Concepts 12

Case 1: Freedom, Citizenship, and Household 12

Case 2: Slavery and Freedom 14

Case 3: Agnatic Relationship 16

Case 4: The Household （Familia） and the Pater Familias 18

Case 5: Sui luris and Alieni Iuris 21

Case 6: The Age of Majority 23

Chapter Ⅱ.Marriage 27

Part A.Getting Married 27

Section l.Capacity to Mar 27

Case 7: Less Than Minimum Age 27

Case 8: The Ability to Procreate 29

Case 9: Conubium 31

Case 10: Legal Impediments 34

Case 11: Incestuous Marriage 36

Case 12: Incentives to Marry and Reproduce 39

Section 2.Agreement and Marital Affection 41

Case 13: The Requirement of Agreement 41

Case 14: A Freedwoman’s Agreement 43

Case 15: Not Standing on Ceremony 45

Case 16: What the Neighbors Know 47

Case 17: Marital Affection 49

Case 18: A Wife or a Concubine? 51

Section 3.Ceremony? 54

Case 19: An Archaic Wedding Ceremony 54

Case 20: Leading a Bride into the Home 56

Case 21: The Significance of Ceremony 58

Case 22: Cohabitation and Marriage 60

Case 23: The Man Who Died beside the Tiber 62

Part B.Further Aspects of the Marriage Process 65

Section 1.Betrothal 65

Case 24: Arranging a Betrothal 65

Case 25: Agreement to Betrothal 67

Case 26: Betrothal and Marriage 68

Case 27: An Affront to the Fiancee 70

Case 28: Jilting Your Intended 71

Section 2.Dowry 72

Case 29: Marriage, Dowry, and Public Policy 72

Case 30: Giving the Dowry 75

Case 31: The Bride Gets Cold Feet 78

Case 32: The Duty to Provide a Dowry 79

Case 33: Appropriate Dowries 81

Case 34: The “Dowered” Wife 83

Case 35: The Burdens of Marriage 84

Case 36: Appraising the Dowry 85

Part C.The Marital Regime 89

Section 1.Manus Marriage 89

Case 37: Filiae Loco 89

Case 38: The Wife’s Property 91

Case 39: Acquisitions by a Wife in Manus 93

Case 40: Can a Wife in Manus Divorce? 94

Section 2.Relations between Spouses 96

Case 41: Free Marriage: The Principle of Noninterference 96

Case 42: Sharing Status 97

Case 43: Showing Reverence 99

Case 44: An Affront to a Spouse 100

Case 45: No Infamy 101

Section 3.Procreation and Sexual Fidelity 104

Case 46: An Unknown Son 104

Case 47: Notice of Pregnancy 105

Case 48: Protecting the Unborn Child 108

Case 49: Custody of Children 109

Case 50: Adultery and Marriage 110

Case 51: Killing the Adulterer… 112

Case 52:…But Not His Own Wife 114

Case 53: Pandering 116

Case 54: The Necessity of Divorce 118

Case 55: A Double Standard? 120

Section 4.The Property of the Spouses 122

Case 56: Separate Estates 122

Case 57: Managing His Wife’s Property 124

Case 58: What the Woman Brings with Her 125

Case 59: Q.Mucius’s Presumption 127

Case 60: Maintenance 128

Case 61: No Gifts 130

Case 62: A Fake Sale 133

Case 63: Making Clothes 134

Case 64: Exceptions 135

Case 65: Severan Reforms 137

Section 5.Administering the Dow 140

Case 66: Equitable Ownership? 140

Case 67: Fruits and Capital Gains 143

Case 68: A Dowry Allowance to the Wife 145

Case 69: Tying the Dowry to the Wife’s Maintenance 147

Case 70: Diligence 149

Case 71: Necessary Expenses 151

Case 72: Statutory Limits on a Husband’s Power 153

Part D.The End of Marriage 156

Section 1.Captivity, Deportation, and Divorce 156

Case 73: Captured 156

Case 74: A Daughter Is Deported 158

Case 75: Free Divorce 160

Case 76: Divorce by Remarriage? 161

Case 77: The Mental Element 163

Case 78: Formal Requirements? 164

Case 79: Free-Form Divorce 167

Case 80: Amicable Divorce 169

Section 2.Return of the Dowry 170

Case 81: A Wife Dies 170

Case 82: Divorce and the Dowry 173

Case 83: Retention on Moral Grounds 174

Case 84: Retaining Necessary Expenses 177

Case 85: Reducing the Dowry by Law 179

Case 86: Useful Expenses 181

Case 87: Opening a Quarry 183

Case 88: Luxury Expenses 185

Case 89: Gaius Gracchus and Licinia’s Dowry 186

Chapter Ⅲ: Patria Potestas 193

Part A.Powers 193

Section 1.The Power of Life and Death 193

Case 90: The Consilium Ⅰ: Almost the Entire Senate 193

Case 91: The Consilium Ⅰ: The Quality of Mercy 196

Case 92: A Hunting Accident? 199

Case 93: Disciplining a Troublesome Son 202

Case 94: An Offense Related to Public Pietas 204

Case 95: An Adulterous Daughter 205

Case 96: Limitations on Killing a Daughter 207

Case 97: A Son and the State 210

Section 2.Consent to Marriage 212

Case 98: Who Consents 212

Case 99: Compelling a Child’s Consent 214

Case 100: A Father’s Consent 215

Case 101: Impaired Consent: Madness 218

Case 102: Impaired Consent: Captivity 219

Case 103: Parental Consent and Public Policy 221

Case 104: Divorce: The Emperor Pius Intervenes 222

Case 105: A Father Changes His Mind 223

Case 106: Disposition of Gifts 224

Case 107: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do 226

Section 3.Custody and Maintenance 229

Case 108: Stealing a Child 229

Case 109: Mother versus Father 230

Case 110: Deciding on Custody 231

Case 111: Self-Custody 234

Case 112: Maintenance of Relatives 235

Part B.Property and Obligations 240

Section 1.Acquiring for the Pater Familias 240

Case 113: Owning and Possessing Nothing 240

Case 114: Through Whom Do We Acquire? 241

Case 115: Ownership and Possession 244

Case 116: The Father’s Knowledge 246

Case 117: Acquiring a Debt 248

Section 2.Obligating the Pater Familias 251

Case 118: The Uniqueness of the Son-in-Power 251

Case 119: As Though He Were a Pater Familias 253

Case 120: Suing the Son 254

Case 121: The Father’s Order 255

Case 122: Turned to the Father’s Benefit 256

Case 123: Obtaining a Daughter’s Dowry 258

Case 124: Business Managers 260

Section 3.The Peculium 265

Case 125: The Nature of the Fund 265

Case 126: The Contents of a Peculium 267

Case 127: Constituting a Peculium 269

Case 128: 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

Case 135: Deductions from the Peculium 285

Case 136: The Deceitful Pater 288

Case 137: Alternative Remedies 289

Case 138: The Camp Peculium 290

Section 4.Liability for Wrongful Acts 292

Case 139: Noxal Actions 292

Case 140: Liability and Status 294

Case 141: Defending the Son 295

Case 142: Wrongs against Children-in-Power 296

Part C.Creation and Termination 298

Section 1.Birth 298

Case 143: Paternal Power and Status 298

Case 144: Presuming a Father 299

Case 145: Periods of Gestation 300

Case 146: Strange Bedfellows? 302

Case 147: A Divorced Wife Takes Vengeance 303

Section 2.Adrogation and Adoption 304

Case 148: Adrogation 304

Case 149: The Adoption Process 306

Case 150: Age Requirements 309

Case 151: Family Ties 310

Case 152: Adoption and Adrogation of Women 311

Case 153: Adoption by Women 312

Case 154: The Imitation of Nature 313

Section 3.Emancipation 315

Case 155: The Decision to Emancipate 315

Case 156: Study Abroad 317

Case 157: Emancipated versus Freed 318

Case 158: The State Intervenes 319

Chapter Ⅳ.Succession 323

Part A.Intestate Succession 323

Section Ⅰ.Civil and Praetorian Law 323

Case 159: Rules of the Ius Civile 323

Case 160: An Unwilling Heir 326

Case 161: The Praetor’s Rules 328

Case 162: Emancipated and Disinherited 330

Case 163: A Legal Puzzler 331

Case 164: The Third Praetorian Class （Unde Cognati） 333

Case 165: Illegitimate Children 334

Case 166: Son-in-Power as Cognate 335

Case 167: Husbands and Wives 337

Section 2.The Senatusconsulta Tertullianum et Orphitianum 339

Case 168: Mothers Inherit from Children 339

Case 169: Children Inherit from Mothers 340

Case 170: Disqualifications 341

Part B.Heirs and the Will 344

Section 1.Freedom of Testation and Substitution 344

Case 171: The Mancipatory Will 344

Case 172: Common Substitution 347

Case 173: Pupillary Substitution 348

Case 174: The Causa Curiana 349

Case 175: Who’s on First? 351

Case 176: Two Wills 352

Section 2.The Sui Heredes 353

Case 177: Privileged Heirs 353

Case 178: Defective Wills 354

Case 179: Name Games 356

Case 180: Disinheritance as an Advantage 358

Case 181: Partial Disinheritance 359

Case 182: Providing for Postumi 360

Case 183: Postumi and the （Un）married Man 361

Case 184: Subfecundity 363

Case 185: Twins 365

Section 3.Bonorum Possessio against the Terms of a Will 367

Case 186: The Challenge of the Emancipatus 367

Case 187: Adopted Children 369

Case 188: Passing Over Sui Heredes 371

Case 189: The Son of an Adopted Child 373

Case 190: Adopting a Son as a Grandson 375

Case 191: Adopting a Grandson as a Son 376

Section 4.The Undutiful Will 377

Case 192: Complaints about the Will 377

Case 193: Duty and Sanity 378

Case 194: Evil Stepmothers 379

Case 195: A Mother’s Mistake 381

Case 196: Multiple Claims 383

Case 197: Procedural Alternatives 384

Part C.Bequests to Nonheirs 387

Section 1.Legacies 387

Case 198: The Lex Falcidia 387

Case 199: Legacy of a Dowry 389

Case 200: Legacy in Place of a Dowry 390

Case 201: Generic Legacies 392

Case 202: Things Acquired for a Wife 394

Case 203: Legacy of a Usufruct 397

Case 204: Legacy of a Peculium 400

Case 205: Release from Liability 402

Section 2.Fideicommissa 404

Case 206: Inheritance by Another Name? 404

Case 207: Fideicommissum or Not? 406

Case 208: The Gargilian Farm 408

Case 209: Legacy and Fideicommissum 410

Case 210: Bad Blood 412

Section 3.Gifts Mortis Causa 413

Case 211: Motives and Reasons 413

Case 212: Just Like a Legacy 416

Appendix: A Specimen Roman Will 418

Chapter Ⅴ: Tutelage and the Status of Children and Women 425

Part A.Children, Young Adults, Lunatics, and Spendthrifts 425

Section 1.The Tutelage of Children 425

Case 213: Defining Tutelage 425

Case 214: Appointing a Tutor 426

Case 215: The Tutor as Owner 428

Case 216: Authorization 430

Case 217: Welfare of the Child 432

Case 218: Pitfalls of Tutelage 434

Case 219: Liability for Alienating Property 437

Section 2.Curatorship of Young Adults 438

Case 220: Making Whole: Restitutio in Integrum 438

Case 221: The Appointment of a Curator 441

Case 222: Paying a Debt 443

Section 3.Curatorship of Lunatics and Prodigals 445

Case 223: Parting Lunatics and Prodigals from Their Property 445

Case 224: A Worried Mother 447

Part B.The Status of Women 450

Section 1.The Permanent Tutelage of Women 450

Case 225: The Weaker Sex? 450

Case 226: The Tutor’s Authorization 453

Case 227: Escaping a Tutor 454

Case 228: Women’s Wills 455

Section 2.Women’s Public Position 457

Case 229: Where the Boys Are 457

Case 230: Order in the Court 460

Case 231: Male Jobs 461

Case 232: Ignorance of the Law 463

Case 233: The Credit of Women 464

Case 234: Protecting Women in Financial Matters 467

Case 235: Sexual Harassment 468

Appendix: 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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