The Institutes 535 CE part 19
3. When a suit is to be commenced between a tutor and his pupil, as the tutor cannot give authority with regard to his...
The Institutes 535 CE part 18
4. Under our present system tutors are appointed at Rome by the prefect of the city, or the praetor, according to his jurisdiction, and,...
The Institutes 535 CE part 17
XVII. Patron Guardianship.
By the same law of the Twelve Tables, the tutelage of freedmen and freedwomen belongs to their patrons, and to the children...
The Institutes 535 CE part 16
XVI. Change of Station.
The capitis deminutio is a change of status, which may happen in three ways: for it may be the greatest capitis...
The Institutes 535 CE part 15
1. Tutelage, as Servius has defined it, is an authority and power over a free person, given and permitted by the civil law, in...
The Institutes 535 CE part 14
6. Children, also, cease to be under the power of their parents by emancipation. Formerly emancipation was effected, either adopting the process of the...
The Institutes 535 CE part 13
1. If a man, convicted of some crime, is deported to an island, he loses the rights of a Roman citizen; whence it follows,...
The Institutes 535 CE part 12
8. He who is either adopted or arrogated is assimilated, in many points, to a son born in lawful matrimony; and therefore, if any...
The Institutes 535 CE part 11
Adoption concur
But if a natural father should give his son in adoption, not to a stranger, but to the son’s maternal grandfather; or, supposing...
The Institutes 535 CE part 10
11. There are other persons also, between whom marriage is prohibited for different reasons, which we have permitted to be enumerated in the books...
