The Law Roman Of Persons Women In Roman Law and Society

The Law Roman Of Persons

Person:According to Roman Law Person was one clothed with right and obligations.In Rome a slave had no
rights and obigations and was therefore regarded not as a person but a thing persons were divided into natural
and artificial a natural person were divided into natural and artificial a natural person may be considered under the following
divisions A:is the person free libertas or unfree slave in case he is free whether he is bron free ingenui or made free
libertini B:is he a citizen civitas or a non citizen C:is he sui juris independent or alieni juris dependent D:if sui juris is he fuflly
independent or is he under a guardian tutor or a care taker curator

First Division of the law of person slavery:

The Causes of slavery:slavery arose in the following ways
by birth According to the civil law the condition of the child was entirely determined by the condition of the mother
if the mother was a slave at the moment of birth the child was a slave

by capture in war the prisoners of war were considered the absolute property of the captor and were either retained for the service
of the state and employed in public works or were sold by auction as part of the plunder by collusive sale if a free person allowed
himself to be sold as a slave in order to share the purchase money and to defraud the purchaser by declaring after sale his true status
he was reduced to slavery and could not afterwards recover his freedom by judicial sentence by judicial sentence roman citizens might be condemned to
slavery as a punishment for heinous offences persons condemned to death or to work in mimes or to fight with wild beast became service

Women In Roman Law and Society

poenae slaves of penalty for gross ingratitude A freed man guilty of gross ingratitude to his late master might be recalled into slavery
for evasion ofcnsus etc under the old law citizens who evaded the census or military service might be sold as slaves by manus injectio The
debtor who suffered manus injectio bodlily siezure of the person of the debtor became one who was ultimately sold by his creditor as slave
for theft A thief caught red handed might be reduced to slavery