- Purpose of the Laws
Augustus introduced legislation designed to penalise the celibate and the childless. By Lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus (18 B.C.) and Lex Papia Poppaea (A.D. 9) penalties and restrictions were imposed on certain categories of persons.
- Their nature
Single men of 25-60, and women of 20-50, and divorced or widowed persons in those age groups, were placed under a duty to marry. Ius liberorum exempted a freeman with three legitimate children, and a freedman with four children. By this legislation an unmarried man could not take under a will, and married persons with no children could take only one half of any legacy left to them. A freeborn citizen was not allowed to marry an actress or a prostitute or a procuress.
Note: These laws were abolished gradually, or became obsolete, in the fourth and fifth centuries.
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- Marriage and Roman Law
+ Marriage (I): Its nature
+ Marriage (II): Sponsalia
+ Marriage (III): Its requisites
+ Marriage (V): Forms of marriage
+ Marriage (VI): Concubinage
+ Marriage (VII): Dissolution of marriage
+ Marriage (VIII): Matrimonial property
+ Marriage (IX): Children
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Source:
Roman Law, L. B. Curzon, page 42.
