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...
The Institutes 535 CE part 9
5. So, too, a man may not marry his paternal aunt, even though she be so only by adoption; nor his maternal aunt; because...
The Institutes 535 CE part 8
X. Marriage.
Roman citizens are bound together in lawful matrimony when they are united according to law, the males having attained the age of puberty,...
