Capitis deminutio
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capitis deminutio · capitis minutio · loss of status · capitis diminutio · capitis diminutio minima · change of status · loss of civil status
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Institutes of Roman Law
The Roman doctrine of loss or change of civil status, which extinguishes statutory agnatic ties.
Agnates who have undergone a capitis deminutio minima are called by the praetor, not indeed in the next degree to self-successors, that is, in the order in which the law of the Twelve Tables would have called them but for their capitis deminutio, but in the third rank under the designation of cognates (next of kin);
si uero uel huius uel illius capitis deminutio interueniat, rursus liberi libertae excludunt patronam, quia legitimo iure capitis deminutione perempto euenit, ut liberi libertae cognationis iure potiores habeantur.
Again, agnates who have undergone a capitis deminutio are not admitted to the inheritance under this law, title by agnation being extinguished by capitis deminutio.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Roman legal term for the loss of status suffered upon emancipation from Patria Potestas.
They underwent that loss of status which in ancient legal phraseology was called a capitis deminutio.