CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS AS AN IMPEDIMENT FOR MARRIAGE IN ROMAN LAW Cover Image

РОДСТВЕНИТЕ ВРЪЗКИ КАТО ПРЕЧКА ЗА СКЛЮЧВАНЕ НА БРАК В РИМСКОТО ПРАВО
CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS AS AN IMPEDIMENT FOR MARRIAGE IN ROMAN LAW

Author(s): José Antonio Martínez Vela
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Civil Law, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: marriage impediments; Roman law; kinship relations; incest; eplicerate; levirate;

Summary/Abstract: Marriage is one of the most important juridical institutions in social life, both in antiquity and today. Therefore it's really important to know its legal regime. This work focuses on analyzing one of the aspects of its regulation: kinship relations as a marriage impediment. Each society the conditions required for the validity of marriage have been regulated, but in all these regulations there has always been one common element: kinship relations constitute an impediment to the valid celebration of a marriage; however, there are important differences in each country in relation to the degree and type of kinship involved. This work aims to show how this problem as addressed in the Roman Law, and the evolution than can be found in it.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 171-195
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Bulgarian