-
draft a will. **** manu was
procured in one of
three ways: confarreatio,
coemptio and usus. The
ritual of confarreatio, a kind of
sacrifice made to Jupiter...
- 33–34.
Frier &
McGinn 2004, pp. 20, 53, 54.
Other marriage forms include coemptio' (marriage "by purchase"), and usus (marriage
recognised through the couple's...
-
transferred Roman women from one
pater familias to another. The first,
coemptio,
represented the
purchase of the bride. This
oldest form of
marriage required...
- farreus);
coemptio, "by purchase"; and by usus (habitual cohabitation).
Patricians always married by confarreatio,
while plebeians married by
coemptio or usus:...
- [including a wife]
undergoes a
formal and
entirely fictitious 'sale' (
coemptio) in
which she
sells herself to [a]
third party, who then reman****tes her...
-
would thence exhibit an oath
structure consisting in an
archaic form of
coemptio: "Swears for the gods he who buys me":
mitat = *emitat (the ****ure bridegroom...
- kinds: confarreatio,
symbolized by the
sharing of
bread (panis farreus);
coemptio, "by purchase"; and usus, "by
mutual cohabitation".
Patricians always married...
- own right.
Women could make
wills through a
process of
fictional sale (
coemptio),
until the
reign of Hadrian, when they were
given the
ability to make...
