Matrimonium

Lat. In Roman law. A leval marriage, contracted in strict aceordance with the forms of the older Roman law, i. é, either with the farreum, the co-emptio, or by uwsus, This was allowed only to Roman citizens and to those neighboring peoples to whom the right of conrwbium liad been conceded. The effect of such a marriage was to bring the wife into the manws, or marital power, of the huskand, and to create the patria potestas over the children. Matrimonium subsaquens tollit peeeafum preecedens. Subsequent marriage cures preceding criminality.