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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Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
2018-11-01
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