jus vitae necisque (English spelling) jusvitaenecisque

…In ancient Rome, clans lost their importance in private law relatively quickly, and families emerged as legal units in which the head of the family had absolute power over its members and, as the only judicial and extrajudicial representative of the family, had full legal personality. In other words, the head of the family also had the power to sell, pawn, and kill his wife, children, their wives, and grandchildren (the power of life and death) who belonged to the family and were subject to the patriarchal power manus patria potestas, and the children, etc., were subject to this power regardless of their sex, age, or marital status, unless they left the family. However, with regard to political rights, adult male children of the family were allowed to serve in the military and to vote in the Assembly and to hold the position of magistrate. …

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…ことに古代ローマでは，氏族が比較的早くその私法上の重要性を失い，家族が法的単位として現れ，そこでは家長が家構成員に対し絶対的権力を有し，また，家族の唯一の裁判上および裁判外の代表者として家長のみが完全な法的人格を有した。すなわち，家長は，その家に属し家長権manus∥patria potestasに服する妻，子，その妻，孫などに対し，その売却，質入，殺害の権限(生殺与奪の権jus vitae necisque)をも有し，家から離脱しないかぎり子などはその性別，年齢，婚姻の有無のいかんを問わずこれに服した。ただし，政治的権利については，成年男子である家子は軍事的役務を負うと同時に，民会での投票権および政務官就任権を認められていた。…

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