# here 1.55-156

Roman Law and Society, here, Lines 1.55-1.156. Latin.

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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
MID-TERM EXAM
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.

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