Legal Consequences of the Prohibition on Widows’ Remarriage in Roman Law

In the archaic period violations of the prohibition relating to mourning was regarded as a nefas and hence subject to penalisation under religious law. A widow guilty of an infringement was required to make an expiatory sacrifce known as a piaculum, viz. a bovis feta. This religious and customary p...

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Main Authors: Piotr Niczyporuk, Piotr Kołodko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie 2018-11-01
Series:Zeszyty Prawnicze
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/zp/article/view/2971
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