community of his own extended familia. In Roman family law, the term "Patria potestas" (Latin: “power of a father”) refers to this concept. He held legal...

having married her mother with conubium, Augustus had Patria Potestas over her. Patria Potestas lasted until the pater familias, Augustus, either died...

marriages, if both the husband and wife were alieni iuris (persons under patria potestas; that is, under the power of their respective patres familias), the...

to be disowned (required in Spain). In Roman law, the rights called patria potestas included power of disownment. As to Italian law, see article 224 of...

biological relations but also by the legally constructed relation of patria potestas ("paternal power"). The pater familias was the absolute head of the...

limitless power over their family, especially their children. This patria potestas, or "the father's power" gave him legal rights over his children until...

distinction between alieni iuris (persons under patria potestas) and sui iuris (persons autonomous of patria potestas, who could only be the pater familias himself)...

Peter to encourage brand new first-century Christians to obey the Patria Potestas (lit. 'Rule of the Fathers') of Greco-Roman law. The New Testament...

authority of patria potestas over his son and grandson. Technically this was not an adoption, the creation of a new and different patria potestas. Lucius Catilius...

"Vitae Necisque Potestas," Historia 48:2 (1999), p. 208. Westbrook, "Vitae Necisque Potestas," pp. 203–204. Westbrook, "Vitae Necisque Potestas," p. 205. ‘The...

Christians to comply with the non-negotiable requirements of Roman Patria Potestas law, and to meet the needs for order within the fledgling churches...

formally release one or the other from his paternal authority (his patria potestas) for the ceremony to take place. Little is specifically known of the...

possessed. According to Cyril Bailey these include: exemption from the Patria Potestas (lit. power of the father) of his father; the wearing of the toga praetexta;...

before the time of Christ, the law of manus along with the concept of patria potestas (rule of the fathers), gave the husband nearly absolute autocratic...

household, the pater familias, exercised autocratic authority through patria potestas including his wife, his children and his slaves. Such rights persisted...

held special legal powers and privileges that gave him jurisdiction (patria potestas) over all the members of his familia. Fathers were in charge of educating...

of education was closely bound to the Roman social institution of patria potestas, in which the father acted as head of the household (pater familias)...

Caligula's heir. Philo saw this as a ploy to put Gemellus under Caligula's patria potestas (power of a father), and perhaps to convince the Senate to go along...

familias, who was lawfully entitled to exercise complete authority (patria potestas) over family property and all family members. Citizenship offered legal...

that when a woman was no longer subject to the power of her father (patria potestas) or her husband (manus) she could act independently. She also gained...

who were any children of the deceased that had remained under his patria potestas ("paternal power") until his death. There was no assumption of primogeniture...

pater familias (father of the family), who held lawful authority (patria potestas, "father's power") over wives, sons, daughters, and slaves of the household...

the child's duty, and in this, it differed from the Roman concept of patria potestas, which defined mostly the father's authoritative power. Whereas in...

"father of the family" (pater familias), held absolute authority (patria potestas) over his children and, to a lesser extent, his wife. His household...

van de Patria Potestas en de Maritale Macht in het Nederlands Burgerlijk Wetboek van 1838" [The History of the Reception of the Patria Potestas and Marital...

Constantine started putting restrictions on the ancient Roman concept of patria potestas, the power held by the male head of a family over his descendants,...

giving us what has been termed the Medea Complex. Under the Roman Law, patria potestas, the right of a father to kill his own children was protected. It was...

formally release one or the other from his paternal authority (his patria potestas) for the ceremony to take place. Little is specifically known of the...

private law during the Republic, and an aspect of Roman patriarchy (patria potestas) – was reframed by these laws as an interest of the state. Preserving...

twenty and fifty for women. Both daughters and sons were subject to patria potestas, the power wielded by their father as head of household (familia)....