# A Basic Glossary of Roman Legal Terms 1.29-39

Roman Law and Society, A Basic Glossary of Roman Legal Terms, 1.29 to 1.39. Latin.

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* ius civile - the law applying to Roman citizens. ** ius gentium - the law common to all peoples. * ius honorarium - the law developed in edicts issued by the praetors during the Republic and early Empire, aiding, supplementing or amending existing rules or procedures of the ius civile . It was finalized in the 2nd century A.D. in the Edictum Perpetuum . The procedures developed by the praetors (the formulary system) were superseded in the 3rd century by the cognitiones . * legis actio - any action at law. Also, the “causes of action” in early Roman law. ** maiestas - the term applied to a number of criminal offenses against the state, including treason, sedition, desertion from the army and, later, offenses against the emperor and his family. ** mancipatio - the formal transfer of property by bronze and scales ( per aes et libram ). Only res mancipi may be so transferred. It was also the procedure for making a will, for the passing of a woman into marital subordination, for bringing people into bondage for the purpose of adoption or emancipation, or as the result of a noxal action. ** manumissio - the freeing of a slave. Also used for the release from bondage following emancipatio . * manus - the power of the pater familias over his wife and his sons’ wives. * minor - a person over the age of puberty (cf. impubes ) but under the age of 25. If sui iuris they had full legal capacity, though they could be protected by a grant of restitutio in integrum (the right to rescind transactions) under certain circumstances. **noxal surrender - the handing over of a slave or animal as compensation to the victim of a delict committed by him. obligatio consensu contracta - a contract entered into by mere agreement.

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