Lex Fufia Caninia

The Lex Fufia Caninia was a Roman law named after the consuls Gaius Fufius Geminus and Lucius Caninius Gallus from the year 2 BC. Chr.

This law stipulated for Roman citizens what proportion of their slaves they were allowed to release . This percentage decreased the greater the number of slaves owned by the master. An owner of three slaves was allowed to release all of them; an owner of four to ten slaves was allowed to release half; if he called eleven to 30 slaves his own, he was allowed to release a maximum of one third; a master over 31 to 100 slaves a quarter and one from 101 to 500 up to a fifth. But it was forbidden to release more than 100 slaves.

With the law, the state tried to put a stop to the reduction in the number of slaves and the proletarianization of cities.

It specifically referred to slaves who had been released in a legally valid form on the basis of a testamentary order ( Latin manumissio iusta testamento ), and accordingly received their freedom only after the death of their master.

literature

Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 85.

Remarks

↑ Dating according to these consuls: CIL 6, 36809 .
↑ Cf. Zvi Yavetz : Kaiser Augustus. A biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2010, p. 233 ff.
^ Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 85.

[1] Dating according to these consuls: CIL 6, 36809 .

[2] Cf. Zvi Yavetz : Kaiser Augustus. A biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2010, p. 233 ff.

[3] Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 85.