Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA, ADDENDA, AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS
- PART I CONDITION OF THE SLAVE
- PART II ENSLAVEMENT AND RELEASE FROM SLAVERY
- CHAPTER XVII Enslavement
- CHAPTER XVIII Enslavement (cont.)
- CHAPTER XIX Outline of Law of Manumission during the Republic
- CHAPTER XX Manumission during the Empire. Forms
- CHAPTER XXI Manumission during the Empire (cont.). Manumission by Will (cont.). Dies, Conditio, Institutio
- CHAPTER XXII Manumission during the Empire (cont.). Fideicommissary Gifts
- CHAPTER XXIII Manumission during the Empire (cont.). Statutory Changes
- CHAPTER XXIV Manumission under Justinian
- CHAPTER XXV Manumission. Special Cases and Minor Restrictions
- CHAPTER XXVI Freedom independent of Manumission
- CHAPTER XXVII Freedom without Manumission. Uncompleted Manumission
- CHAPTER XXVIII Questions of Status as affected by Lapse of Time, Death, Judicial Decision, etc.
- CHAPTER XXIX Effect after Manumission of Events during Slavery. Obligatio Naturalis
- APPENDIX I The relation of the contractual actions adiectitiae qualitatis to the Theory of Representation
- APPENDIX II Formulation and Litis Consumptio in the actions adiectitiae qualitatis
- APPENDIX III Form used by Slave in acquisition by Mancipatio, etc.
- APPENDIX IV The essential character of Manumission: Iteratio
- APPENDIX V Manumission vindicta by a, filiusfamilias
- INDEX
CHAPTER XX - Manumission during the Empire. Forms
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA, ADDENDA, AND LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS
- PART I CONDITION OF THE SLAVE
- PART II ENSLAVEMENT AND RELEASE FROM SLAVERY
- CHAPTER XVII Enslavement
- CHAPTER XVIII Enslavement (cont.)
- CHAPTER XIX Outline of Law of Manumission during the Republic
- CHAPTER XX Manumission during the Empire. Forms
- CHAPTER XXI Manumission during the Empire (cont.). Manumission by Will (cont.). Dies, Conditio, Institutio
- CHAPTER XXII Manumission during the Empire (cont.). Fideicommissary Gifts
- CHAPTER XXIII Manumission during the Empire (cont.). Statutory Changes
- CHAPTER XXIV Manumission under Justinian
- CHAPTER XXV Manumission. Special Cases and Minor Restrictions
- CHAPTER XXVI Freedom independent of Manumission
- CHAPTER XXVII Freedom without Manumission. Uncompleted Manumission
- CHAPTER XXVIII Questions of Status as affected by Lapse of Time, Death, Judicial Decision, etc.
- CHAPTER XXIX Effect after Manumission of Events during Slavery. Obligatio Naturalis
- APPENDIX I The relation of the contractual actions adiectitiae qualitatis to the Theory of Representation
- APPENDIX II Formulation and Litis Consumptio in the actions adiectitiae qualitatis
- APPENDIX III Form used by Slave in acquisition by Mancipatio, etc.
- APPENDIX IV The essential character of Manumission: Iteratio
- APPENDIX V Manumission vindicta by a, filiusfamilias
- INDEX
Summary
The period covered by this heading extends over nearly 600 years, if we regard Justinian's reign as the end of things. It ought in strictness to be treated as at least three distinct periods, but as nearly the whole of our information is derived from Justinian's compilations, it is not easy so to divide it. But it is plain that he made many changes, and it is possible thus to treat the matter as having a history in two periods, of which the first ends with the accession of Justinian. It must, however, be remembered that changes are going on rapidly throughout this period, and thus it is important to keep perspective in view. Moreover, of a great mass of detail, it is not easy to tell how much of it is classical and how much is of a later age. This will be treated, for the most part, in the discussion of the, first period, so that the law under Justinian will be dealt with more shortly.
It was no longer true in the Empire that all manumission made the slave a civis, but, for the present, we shall discuss the normal case, leaving the special statutory rules and restrictions for a later chapter.
The formal modes of manumission are (1) Gensu, (2) In sacrosanotis Ecclesiis, (3) Vindicta, (4) Testamento.
1. Censu. This is practically obsolete.
2. In saceosanctis Ecclesiis. This is a method which it seems somewhat out of place to consider so early, for, as we know it, it dates only from the time of Constantine.
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- The Roman Law of SlaveryThe Condition of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian, pp. 449 - 478Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010