Emancipation
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in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The formal process, originally via mancipation, by which a child is released from paternal power.
Justinian simplified the formalities of emancipation and adoption.
Praeterea emancipatione desinunt liberi in potestate parentum esse.
Women and male grandsons by a son pass out of the power of their father or grandfather after one mancipation;
Ancient Law
The Roman legal act freeing a child from paternal power, which paradoxically stripped that child of inheritance rights.
The empire of the father had indeed received one of the earliest blows directed at it through the recognition of Emancipation as a legitimate usage, but the law, still considering the Patria Potestas to be the root of family connection, persevered in looking on the emancipated children as strangers to the rights of Kinship and aliens from the blood.