Roman law

statute

ancient school of Roman law, to 551 AD

legal term

Old Latin inscription dating to 186 BC

A suffect () is a substitute or replacement for a Roman magistrate who died in office. The most well-attested suffects are those of the consuls, who in the republican period were elected to fill vacancies if one of the consuls died. However, other magistracies could also have suffects, such as the plebeian tribunate.

ancient Roman law

senior legal authority in the late Roman Empire and early Byzantium

speech by Cicero, 56 BC

social relationship

Roman 4th century BC law

speech by Cicero, 62 BC

series of speeches by Cicero

series of ancient Roman laws

Roman law

Nexum was a debt bondage contract in the early Roman Republic. A debtor pledged his person as collateral if he defaulted on his loan. Details as to the contract are obscure and some modern scholars dispute its existence. It was allegedly abolished either in 326 or 313 BC.

action in Roman penal law brought by a member of the public in the interest of public order

legal action

term used in Roman law

lists of political institutions of ancient Rome

Roman law from 149 BC

Roman law

ancient Roman law

Roman law

legal concept, subclass of diligence

three laws which were passed by the consuls of Rome for 449 BC

statute

"restoration to original condition": Latin term in law

Delator (plural: delatores, feminine: delatrix) is Latin for a denouncer, one who indicates to a court another as having committed a punishable deed.

known as the Cassians

collection of constitutions issued by Roman Emperors

Justitium (derived from the Latin term Juris statio) is a concept of Roman law, equivalent to the declaration of the state of emergency. Some scholars also refer to it as a state of exception, stemming from a state of necessity. It involved the suspension of civil business, typically including the courts, the treasury and the Senate and was ordered by the Roman higher magistrates. It was usually declared following a sovereign's death, during the troubled period of interregnum, but also in case of invasions. However, in this last case, it was not as much the physical danger of invasion that jus

Minutes of the Roman Senate

In Roman law, abrogatio is in general an annulment of a law or legal procedure.

doctrine originating in Roman law

social classes in Ancient Rome

thumb|Bust of Tutela from the Martigny mithraeum In ancient Roman culture and mythology, Tutela was a goddess and divine personification of "guardianship." As a concept, tutela had specific applications under Roman law.

thumb | right | alt=Photograph of a statue depicting two people | Ancient Roman marriage (Baths of Diocletian Museum, Rome) In ancient Rome, '''' was a traditional patrician form of marriage. The ceremony involved the bride and bridegroom sharing a cake of emmer, in Latin far or panis farreus'', hence the rite's name. Far is often translated as "spelt", which is inaccurate as the grain used was Triticum dicoccum (emmer), not Triticum spelta. The Flamen Dialis and pontifex maximus presided over the wedding, and ten witnesses had to be present. The woman passed directly from the hand (manus) of

Roman legal principle (issued 426)

in ancient Roman law, an annual declaration of principles made by the new praetor urbanus – the elected magistrate charged with administering justice within the city of Rome

statute in ancient Rome

continuation of ancient Roman law in the late Middle Ages

Permitted religion in ancient Roman law

In the early days of Ancient Rome, perduellio () was the capital offense of high treason, although it was not well defined. The form of action on this charge changed over the course of the Roman republic. The word later became just an intensifier for the more common treason charge (maiestas). It was set down plainly in the Law of the Twelve Tables as follows: The Law of the Twelve Tables orders that he who has stirred up an enemy or who has handed over a citizen to the enemy is to be punished capitally. (Marcianus, D. 48, 4, 3).

Latin term for public domain in Roman law

ancient Roman law

place of refuge in antiquity

oration of Cicero

statute

Roman law established in 4 AD

ancient Roman law

amount of money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion found hidden

In ancient Rome, (in-, "not", and fama, "reputation") was a loss of legal or social standing. As a technical term in Roman law, was juridical exclusion from certain protections of Roman citizenship, imposed as a legal penalty by a censor or praetor. In more general usage during the Republic and Principate, was damage to the esteem (aestimatio) in which a person was held socially; that is, to one's reputation. A person who suffered was an (plural ).

Latin phrase regarding the inheritance rights of a fetus

Roman law (9CE) punishing childless families

jurist school of the roman empire

Roman-law principle which has the power of praesumptio iuris et de iure

tributary state/community of Rome