Tesis Doctoral - Universidad de Huelva

Las Uniones extramatrimoniales ante la falta de conubium:
Fundamento jurídico de los impedimentos matrimoniales en la Roma clásica
histórico surgieron cada una de ellas 126 . Siguiendo a la
doctrina 127 , examinamos cada una de ellas para comprender el
alcance jurídico y los efectos que producían en el Derecho
Romano:
126 P. E. CORBETT, The Roman Law of marriage..., op. cit., pp. 68-69.
De esta manera lo expresa P. Corbett, al reparar en las fuentes que
regulan las formas del matrimonio, cuando literalmente señala que:
"From the legal point of view, marriage in the classical period of
Roman law is almost, if not entirely, a formless transaction. That is
sufficient explanation of the fact that so little is to be found in
the juristic writings on the subject of forms (…). It is now generally
assumed, and on good grounds, that the original Roman marriage always
involved manus over the wife, while the marriage without manus, the
so-called free marriage, was of comparatively late development (…). Of
these the best account, brief as it is, is that given by Gaius in I,
III-II3. Three institutions are there described in the following
order, usus, confarreatio, and coemptio. Nothing is said there, or
elsewhere in the Roman records, as to the comparative antiquity of
these forms, and there is no reason for supposing that Gaius treats
them in chronological order. Only one indication as to age is given
that is the statement that the XII Tables provided for the
interruption of usus by trinoctio abesse".
127 C. FAYER, La familia romana..., op. cit., p. 185 ss.; A. FERNÁNDEZ
DE BUJÁN Y FERNÁNDEZ, Reflexiones a propósito de la realidad
social..., op. cit., p. 37 ss.; P. RESINA SOLA, La condición jurídica
de la mujer..., op. cit., p. 103.
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