The origins of property rights in Rome: Mancipium – Nexus

Authors

  • Guillermo Suárez Blázquez Universidad de Vigo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-20168108

Keywords:

Roman law, property rights, <i>mancipium, nexus</i>

Abstract

The following article aims to study the origins of Roman property. The exercise of corporal power in archaic Rome was possibly conducted by means of a process of domestication, subjugation and deprivation of force applied indiscriminately to both people and objects (mancipium = nexus). By the time of the Republic, this material power had evolved and partially dismembered into an abstract right to ownership separate from the effective and corporal power over objects themselves (mancipium), and partially into an individual right which spiritualized the archaic corporal legal bond (nexus) connecting the subjects implied in an obligatory legal relationship.

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Published

2016-01-28

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Vol. 8 - No. 1 - Janeiro a Abril (2016)

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The origins of property rights in Rome: Mancipium – Nexus. (2016). Passages: International Review of Political History and Legal Culture, 8(1), 142-192. https://doi.org/10.15175/1984-2503-20168108