Incorporeal Things Certain things, again, are corporeal, others incorporeal. 1. Corporeal things are those which are by their nature tangible, as land, a slave, a garment, gold, silver, and other things innumerable. 2. Incorporeal things are those which are...
Institutes of Justinian
Things are sacred which have been duly consecrated by the pontiffs, as sacred buildings and offerings, properly dedicated to the service of God, which we have forbidden by our constitutio to be sold or mortgaged, except for the purposes...
Guardianship Let us now proceed to another division of persons. Of those who are not in the power of a parent, some are under a tutor, some under a curator, some under neither. Let us treat, then, of the...
Adoption takes place in two ways, either by imperial rescript, or by the authority of the magistrate. The imperial rescript gives power to adopt persons of either sex who are sui juris;
Marriage Roman citizens are bound together in lawful matrimony when they are united according to law, the males having attained the age of puberty, and the females a marriageable age, whether they are fathers or sons of a family;...
Slaves. We now come to another division relative to the rights of persons; for some persons are independent, some are subject to the power of others. Of those, again, who are subject to others, some are in the power...
The people of Rome, then, are governed partly by their own laws, and partly by the laws which are common to all mankind.
I. Justice and Law. Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render every one his due. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human; the science of the just and the unjust. Having explained these general terms,...