The authority of the pater familias over his wife was called manus, over his descendants patria potestas, over his chattels dominica potestas.
At first we find the Longobard mundium, but this gradually takes the shape of the Roman patria potestas, as regulated by Justinian's legislation, which finally prevails, although never absolutely.
The father's authority was held in veneration, and the utmost confidence reposed in guardians of his choice; but we do not find in the statutes any great development of the patria potestas.
We see here that curiously enough strong paternal consanguinity coincides with weakening of the patria potestas (provided the information be accurate on both points).
In this phrase there is a complete oversight of the various actual ways in which an intimate relation between father and child may be established, and which have nothing to do either with consanguinity or with patria potestas.
No data for assuming the existence in Australia of patria potestasas a legal form (p.
Already in pagan times the Roman patria potestas became a shadow of what it had been.
Nor is there any evidence that the patria potestas of the Roman type ever prevailed in full in India, great though the father's or parent's authority has been, and still is, among the Hindus.
It has been suggested by Sir Henry Maine and others that the patria potestas of the Romans was a survival of the paternal authority which existed among the primitive Aryans.
This, our authority adds, is apparently the external sign of a strict patria potestas, which remains in force till the funeral; until then the son is the father's slave.
The patria potestas, in fact, is exerted not only over sons and grandsons but also over their wives.
The basis of the patriarchal family is the patria potestas, but in its "normal shape" it has not been and could not be "generally a durable institution.
For the Roman patria potestassee POSTE, Gaius, 61 ff.
In truth, in the primitive view, relationship is exactly limited by patria potestas.
If the buyer free the son, the son reënters his father's control (patria potestas).
This type of wedlock, used originally by plebeians, is a fictitious sale, by which a woman is freed from either patria potestas or tutela.
There have been wife-capture, wife-purchase and the patria potestas.
Both changes were obviously limited in their application, and they were so contrived in technical form as to interfere as little as possible with the principle of Patria Potestas.
After passing sentences at this time, I made some observations on the 'patria potestas' [power of the father] theory.
Diocletian forbade the selling of children, Constantine decreed that the father who exposed his new-born child should lose the patria potestas, and Valentinian punished such action with death.
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