PATRIA POTESTAS IN ROMAN LAW
Keywords:
Roman law, patria potestas, pater familias, marriage, adaptationAbstract
This paper aims to point out the importance of patria potestas and the range of authorizations that this power encompassed in the period before and during the Roman Republic.. Patria potestas is an institute inherent in Roman law, and includes the authority of the father of the family over property and persons who do not live in their own right but as pater familias. There is a wide range of powers that pater familias had under this authority over alieni iuris persons. Not only was he the master of their property, but also the master of their lives (ius vitae ac necis), and this is something that is incomprehensible from the point of view of a modern man living in the 21st century, in an era of democracy and human rights expansion. Therefore, patria potestas should be seen as a relic of the past and a reflection of social relations characteristic only for the duration of the Roman Empire.
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