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Life Unions of Roman Soldiers as Specific Legal Facts

Roman soldiers were forbidden by law to contract a legally recognized marriage under the rules of Roman law (matrimonium iustum). Enactment of the ban of soldiers’ marriage is usually attributed to Augustus, though the form of its introduction is not familiar to modern science. From the legal point of view it is difficult to define life unions of Roman soldiers that existed during their service. They existed as legal facts on the edge of the Roman perception of legality and as such were perceived differently than concubinatus, but more-less with analogue legal consequences. By awards of different privileges in inheritance law the emperors expressed their attitudes on their existence and impossibility to neglect them.

Roman law, roman soldiers, matrimony, de facto life unions, Roman military diploma

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