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.
licet enim capitis deminutione ius legitimum perdiderint, certe cognationis iura retinent.
Item agnati capite deminuti non admittuntur ex ea lege ad hereditatem, quia nomen agnationis capitis deminutione perimitur.
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.