Status
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condicio hominum · personal conditions · social position fixed at birth · status · status of the slave
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Ancient Law
The legally recognized personal condition of an individual, historically derived from family power, contrasted with contractual relations.
If then we employ Status, agreeably with the usage of the best writers, to signify these personal conditions only, and avoid applying the term to such conditions as are the immediate or remote result of agreement, we may say that the movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
The point, for instance, which is really debated in the vigorous controversy still carried on upon the subject of negro servitude, is whether the status of the slave does not belong to by-gone institutions, and whether the only relation between employer and labourer which commends itself to modern morality be not a relation determined exclusively by contract.
Institutes of Roman Law
The doctrine classifying persons by liberty, citizenship, and domestic position, treated as the law of relations of inequality.
Status falls under three heads—liberty (libertas), citizenship (civitas), and domestic position (familia).
Public law, then, is a law of Status, and the law of Persons or law of Status in the private code is the intrusion of a portion of the public code into the private code;
The law of Persons, in other words, the law of Status, classifies men as slaves and free, as citizens (privileged) and aliens (unprivileged), as paterfamilias (superior) and filiusfamilias (dependent).