Augustan Marriage Laws

The Emperor Augustus sought by a comprehensive series of marriage laws (lex Julia de maritandis ordimhus (A. D. 4) and lex Papia Poppcea (A. D. 9), to promote marriages and encourage the bearing of children. Persons remaining unmarried {calibres) without sufficient reason and childless persons (orbi) were made incapable of taking property by will. These penalties were abolished by later emperors. (Sohm, § 99.)

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Contracts Stricti Juris and Bonae Fidei

Classification of Persons

Commodatum (Loan for Use)