Lex Voconia

The Lex Voconia was a Roman law dating from 169 BC. It was created by a plebiscite during the republic .

The overriding reason for the drafting of the law was the fear that the already observed disintegration phenomena of the mos maiorum would advance. This code of conduct, which has been handed down in customary law, should in principle be supported. The law turned against the inheritance of women in the first census class . It was supposed to prevent large fortunes from being wasted or fragmented. The law also forbade the deliberate from accepting more from the legacy of a testator in the first census class than was due to the heir. Prohibited appointments of heirs were ineffective. The sanctions threatening the legatee have not been handed down.

The pursued legal success is said to have ultimately failed. The law was circumvented in such a way that although the entire inheritance was not bequeathed, it was so encumbered that the heir was regularly no longer ready to take over the inheritance. Against this was directed from 41 BC. The lex Falcidia , the quota limits for the encumbrance of inheritances.

literature

Ernst Baltrusch : Regimen morum: The regulation of the private life of the senators and knights in the Roman Republic and early Imperial Era, Vestigia, contributions to ancient history, vol. 41, CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 3-406-33384-2 , pp. 69 ff .
Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , pp. 21-22.
Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 197 f.

Remarks

^ ^A ^b Ernst Baltrusch : Regimen morum: The regulation of the private life of the senators and knights in the Roman Republic and early Imperial Era, Vestigia, Contributions to Ancient History, Bd. 41, CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 3-406-33384-2 , p . 69 ff.
↑ Gaius 2, 226, 274.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 197 f.
↑ Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , pp. 21-22.
^ Ulrich Manthe : Das senatus consultum Pegasianum (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 12). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1989 (habilitation thesis). P. 16 (there FN 11).

[Balt-1] A ^b Ernst Baltrusch : Regimen morum: The regulation of the private life of the senators and knights in the Roman Republic and early Imperial Era, Vestigia, Contributions to Ancient History, Bd. 41, CH Beck, Munich, ISBN 3-406-33384-2 , p . 69 ff.

[2] Gaius 2, 226, 274.

[Honsell-3] Heinrich Honsell : Roman law. 5th edition, Springer, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-540-42455-5 , p. 197 f.

[4] Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , pp. 21-22.

[5] Ulrich Manthe : Das senatus consultum Pegasianum (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 12). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1989 (habilitation thesis). P. 16 (there FN 11).