Curiosities of ancient Rome (Law)

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Law offers interesting facts about the legal system of ancient Rome and the rules that governed public and private life in the Roman Empire. This category includes lesser-known facts, interesting details, and unusual information about Roman statutes, legal institutions, the judiciary, and the everyday functioning of law in the ancient world.

Division of Romans into honestiores and humiliores

Together with the introduction in 212 CE the so-called edict of Caracalla (Constitutio Antoniniana) all free Romans (apart from peregrini dedicti – free foreigners) have been granted civil rights. It seemed that the emperor from…Więcej

Contubernium in Roman law

Contubernium in Roman law was a permanent and legally permissible relationship between slaves or a free person and a slave. Contubernium was a purely factual relationship with no legal effect. Children from this relationship became…Więcej

Lex Tullia

Candidates for civil servants often organized spectacular shows prior to the elections in order to win the favor of the crowds. In the year 63 BCE the Senate issued an act, on the initiative of…Więcej

Physical person in ancient Rome

In ancient Rome, as a physical person was considered a person from the moment of a birth, but only when he came into the world alive and his body exhibited the characteristics of naturalness. The…Więcej

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