PATRIA POTESTAS IN PERSONAL AND PROPERTY LEGAL POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

To the detriment of the human race, it can be concluded that the surviving material on Roman law is often insufficient for its complete understanding. This problem extends through the topic of this work, which is represented by one of the perhaps most important institutes of Roman family law. How did the Romans get to the stage of the family where everything is subordinated to one person? This work tries to portray the personality of the father of the family, the so-called pater familias, and to explain the role of everyone who was under him in the Roman family.