agnatio

Updated: May 21, 2025

In matters of marriage and inheritance, equality of rights with the burgesses was far sooner conceded to foreigners than to those who were strictly non-free and belonged to no community; but the latter could not well be prohibited from contracting marriages in their own circle and from forming the legal relations arising out of marriage those of marital and paternal power, of -agnatio- and -gentilitas- of heritage and of tutelage after the model of the corresponding relations among the burgesses.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

In matters of marriage and inheritance, equality of rights with the burgesses was far sooner conceded to foreigners than to those who were strictly non-free and belonged to no community; but the latter could not well be prohibited from contracting marriages in their own circle and from forming the legal relations arising out of marriage those of marital and paternal power, of -agnatio- and -gentilitas- of heritage and of tutelage after the model of the corresponding relations among the burgesses.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book I : The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy