Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
Under the republic there was not sufficient limit to paternal power, and the pater familias was necessarily a tyrant.
The first limitation of paternal power is ascribed to the justice and humanity of Numa, and the maid who, with his father's consent, had espoused a freeman, was protected from the disgrace of becoming the wife of a slave.
The life of a citizen was less exposed than his fortune to the abuse of paternal power.
Under the republic, there was not sufficient limit to paternal power, and the paterfamilias was necessarily a tyrant.
No one but a Roman citizen could exercise this awful paternal power, nor did it cease until the father died, or the daughter had entered into marriage with the conventio in manum.
The first limitation of paternal power is ascribed to the justice and humanity of Numa; and the maid who, with his father's consent, had espoused a freeman, was protected from the disgrace of becoming the wife of a slave.
Out of this state of things the syndyasmian family was gradually evolved, and with it the germ of paternal power.
The first limitation of paternal power is ascribed to the justice and humanity of Numa; and the maid who, with his father's consent, had espoused a freeman, was protected from the disgrace of becoming the wife of a slave.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paternal power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
