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GCSE Classics · key term
A Roman legal power over a wife which made her a member of her husband's legal family, with the position of a daughter.
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Paper 2
Revise: RomeTo understand Roman marriage, separate two questions: were the couple married, and did the husband acquire manus over his wife? Consent was central to marriage. Where the couple were under another person's legal authority, that person's consent was also required.
Distinguish the ways of acquiring manus—coemptio, confarreatio and usus—from the legal distinction between cum manu and sine manu.
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