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Lines 1.55-1.156
Roman Law and Society, here 1.55-156
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Role of senate, magistracies and assemblies.
The imperial Civil Service.
The issue of succession.
Transition to the Dominate.
Constitution of the Dominate.
Readings: Jolowicz 332-355 &436-449 &457-487 [66 pp.]
Week 5: The Law of Persons
Senatorial nobility /Equites.
The middle and lower classes.
Slaves and freedman.
Cives and peregrini.
Classifications of cives.
Honestiores and humiliores.
Readings: Crook 36-67
Week 6: The Law of Family
The Roman Agnatic Family
The Roman Family and its relations:
patria potestas.
manus .
adoptio .
adrogatio .
Marriage:
Bethrothal.
Types of Marriage.
Divorce.
Dowry.
Guardianship:
tutela .
cura .
Readings: Crook 98-118
Week 7: The Law of Inheritance and Succession
General Concepts:
Universal succession.
Heres and Hereditas .
Succession:
Testamentary.
Intestate.
Remedies of the heir.
Readings: Crook 118-138
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Week 8: The Law of Property
Classifications of res (res mancipi and nec mancipi ).
Categories of ownership (dominium ,peregrinus ,bonitary ).
Modes of acquisition (mancipatio, in iure cessio, usucapio ).
Modes of involuntary transfer (occupatio ,accessio ,etc.) .
Iura in re aliena (praedial servitudes, usufructus and usus ).
Development of the possessory interdicts.
Ownership in the provinces.
Ownership by peregrini.
Readings: Crook 139-178
Week 9: The Law of Slavery
Legal nature of slavery
Capacity of slave to act on behalf of master.
Early Republic.
Development by praetorian law.
Development of agency.
Manumission:
Censu
Vindicta
Testamento
Informal manumissions.
The Augustan Legislation on Manumission:
lex Fufia Caninia
lex Iunia
lex Aelia Sentia
Conditions of slavery:
The slave "family".
Chastisement.
Disabilities.
Readings: Crook 179-192
Week 10: The Law of Obligations
Contracts
Nexum.
Formal contracts.
Informal contracts.
Security.
Delict (The Roman Law of Tort)
furtum.
iniuria.
Ius honorarium.
Readings: Crook 206-249
Week 11: Criminal Law
Self-help and tumultus .
Criminal law in the early Republic.
Quaestiones perpetuae of the Late Republic.
Criminal law under the Principate/Dominate.
The Issue of Christianity.