Today, in legal terminology, the term persona (or “person”) refers to an individual subject to the law—someone upon whom the full force of legal norms can be applied. Was it true for the Romans? Today we will see what it meant to be a person with full right to be recognised by the law.
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Fonts:
Gai. 1.9.
D.4.2.9.1.
Gai 1.159.
Cfr.I.1.16.4
D.25.4.1.1
D.50.16.129
C.6.29.3
Gai I. generaliter.
Marrone, Istituzioni di Diritto Romano, Palumbo 2006
William L. Burdick, The Principles of Roman Law and Their Relation to Modern Law (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd 2004)
The Main Institutions of the Roman Private Law, WW Buckland, Cambridge 2023
J. R. Trahan, ‘The Distinction between Persons and Things: An Historical Perspective’ (2008)
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