Roman Law
Title: Roman Law
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 986 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Roman Law
It is AD 212. You are a jurist consulting in Rome. Crassus, a senator and wealthy landowner, tells you the following story:
A few months ago I came down with a debilitating fever. My doctor Medicus, whom I now know for a thorough villain, told me I was suffering from nervous exhaustion caused by my owning too much property. He said it would assist my recovery if I made over to him a large portion of …showed first 75 words of 986 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 986 total…are that she could not own her property, and anything she acquired during marriage passed to the husband. So in this case, the actio doli would affect this estate as well, as the legal owner would be Medicus. However, the passage does state that this occurred in AD 212, and free marriage became the norm from the late Republic onwards. Thus it is more realistic to assume that Medicus and his wife had a free marriage.
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