Derecho Romano: Conceptos Fundamentales de Personas y Familia

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering Roman law concepts including legal personality, slavery, family structure, manus, patria potestas, and marriage.

Persona física

A legal status under Roman law (Derecho Romano) that required 3 specific requirements (requisitos) to be legally recognized.

Servitus o Esclavitud

The institution of slavery in Roman law, which had six recognized causes (seis causas de exclavitud).

Abandono Noxal

A legal surrender in Roman law concerning the delivery of a household member or slave who caused an injury or delict.

Manumisión solemne

The formal methods recognized by Roman law for granting liberty (otorgar la libertad) to an enslaved person.

Liberto

A freed slave in Roman law over whom the former patron or master (antiguo patron o señor) conserved rights, including the requirement of gratitude (tenia que estar agradecido).

Ingenuo

A person in Roman law who was born free and had never been subjected to legal slavery, contrasted with a liberto.

Ciudadanía Romana

Roman citizenship status that conferred distinct public and private rights (derechos publicos y privados) and required established legal methods to be accredited.

Sui Iuris

A Roman legal status denoting a person who is legally independent and not subject to the paternal authority of another.

Alieni Iuris

A Roman legal status describing an individual who is under the legal power and authority of someone else, such as a pater familia.

Atributos de la personalidad

The legal attributes defining personal capacity in Roman law, subject to specific legal causes of loss of personality (perdida de personalidad).

Asociación y Fundación

Collective legal entities in Roman law; an asociación was subject to specific legal requirements by law (de acuerdo a la ley) to be valid.

Familia o Domus

The household unit in Roman law encompassing all persons and property subject to the privileges and legal authority of the pater familia.

Pater familia

The head of the Roman Domus who held exclusive privileges and authority over the members of the household.

Manus

The legal power and marital authority over a wife in Roman law, which originated through 3 manners or 3 modes (3 maneras o 3 modos).

Matrimonio SINE MANU

A form of Roman marriage celebrated where the wife did not fall under the marital authority (manus) of the husband or his family.

Patria potestad

Paternal legal authority in Roman law that could be acquired through legitimation (legitimación) and had 5 causes of extinction (5 causas de la extinción).

Iustae Nuptiae

Lawful Roman marriage, which required 5 specific requirements (5 Requisitos) to be validly contracted under Roman law.

Disolución del matrimonio y Divorcio

The formal ending and dissolution of marriage and divorce in Roman law, which arose under specific legal cases and procedural methods.