REFLECTIONS ON PURPOSE OF SOCIAL REALITY, LEGAL TRADITION AND CHRISTIAN MORALITY IN ROMAN MARRIAGE Cover Image

ВЗАИМНАТА ВРЪЗКА МЕЖДУ СОЦИАЛНАТА ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛНОСТ, ПРАВНАТА ТРАДИЦИЯ И ХРИСТИЯНСКИЯ МОРАЛ В РИМСКИЯ БРАК
REFLECTIONS ON PURPOSE OF SOCIAL REALITY, LEGAL TRADITION AND CHRISTIAN MORALITY IN ROMAN MARRIAGE

Author(s): Antonio Fernández De Buján
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Canon Law / Church Law, EU-Legislation
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Roman law; marriage legislation; matrimonium cum manu; matrimonium sine manu; concubinatus; sponsalia;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to prove that the roots of the marriage model which characterizes the western European way of thinking, are in the Roman and Canonic Law. It is outlined that the marriage as every institute with a long tradition is a historic product. In every age it expresses a determined moral and social mentality, reflects the changes of the social attitude and the State policy and the tendencies of saving and updating of the existing legal regulation. Consecutively are considered the definition of the term of marriage, the species of marriages according to the Roman private law, the regulation of the factual cohabitation of the and the engagement. It is made the conclusion that basing on the historical experience could be done an evaluation of the modern relations, their legal regulation and its eventual reforming.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 153-170
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian