| Keywords |
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| ID |
5210 |
| Text |
Edictus Rothari (643 - 643) Rothari, Rothair |
| Quotation |
Nulli mulieri liberae sub regni nostri ditionem legis langobardorum viventem liceat in sui potestatem arbitrium, id est selpmundia vivere, nisi semper sub potestatem virorum aut certe regis debeat permanere; nec aliquid de res mobiles aut inmobiles sine voluntate illius, in cuius mundium fuerit, habeat potestatem donandi aut alienandi. |
| Translation |
No free woman who lives according to the law of the Lombards within the jurisdiction of our realm is permitted to live under her own legal control, that is to be selp-mundia [legally competent], but she ought always to remain under the control of some man or of the king. Nor may a woman have the right to give away or alienate any of her movable or immovable property without the consent of him who possesses her guardianship [mundium].
(Emended from K. Fischer-Drew, trans., The Lombard Laws (1973), p. 92) |
| Summary |
Rothari, No. 204 establishes the legal position of free women as lacking selpmundia, that is legal competency, and instead having to be legally subordinate to either some man or else the king. The law clarifies that she cannot giveaway or alienate her property, whether movable or immovable, without the permission of this man. |
| Quotation source |
MGH, LL 4, 1868 (F. Bluhme), p. 50 |
| Temporal Coverage |
643 - 643 |
| Associated use case(s) |
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| Comment |
The Edictus Rothari forms part of the collected Edictus Langobardorum [Text, ID:984]. |
