The Minician Law: Marriage and the Roman Citizenship

Abstract

THE HISTORY OF THE LAW governing the marriage of Roman citizens and non-Romans is readily reconstructed, not much affected by the Justinianic reworking and redaction of many legal texts and the loss of much juristic writing. It betrays the complexity of the Roman law of marriage. At its heart was the Minician law, the terms of which are explicitly attested, though not much canvassed.1 Enacted probably sometime before the Social War, the law seems never to have been abrogated. And changes in it can be dated. It is a record mainly of exclusionism, and one of consequence to the larger history of the Roman family, to patterns of inheritance, for example, perhaps to choice of marriage partner.

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