Conubium

In ancient Roman law, the conubium was the ability to enter into a recognized marriage with a specific person . It was not until 445 BC that A lex canuleia marriages between plebeians and patricians . With the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD, which made Roman citizenship possible for all free legal members, the conubium lost its meaning and became a term for marriage itself.

See also

• Marriage in the Roman Empire
• Cohabitation in ancient Rome
• Connubium

literature

• M. Guarducci: The "Conubium" nei riti del matrimonio etrusco e di quello romano . Tipogr. Cuggiani, Rome / Italy 1928 (Italian).
• Paul Martin Meyer: The Roman cohabitation according to the legal sources and the inscriptions. Leipzig 1895, reprint Aalen 1966.

Web links

• Search for Conubium in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

1. ↑ M. Guarducci: Il “Conubium” nei riti del matrimonio etrusco e di quello romano . Tipogr. Cuggiani, Rome 1928 (Italian).