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25 - Family Law

from Conubium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2022

By
Franck Roumy
Edited by
Anders Winroth  and
John C. Wei
Anders Winroth
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
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Summary

A genuine canon law of the family developed in the high Middle Ages. It was built on papal decisions in specific cases during the second half of the twelfth century and the first decades of the thirteenth, and their interpretation by professors of law. Academic exposition was crucial in this legal field, more so than in others, since ecclesiastical legislation in the first millennium had taken little or no interest in the family. Church courts were largely forced to innovate, seeking papal verdicts and generating many papal rescripts that required interpretation by the masters. As was their wont, the ecclesiastical judges and the canonists also borrowed many rules from Roman law in order to fill the holes in canon law, which happened to touch only incidentally on certain questions, such as guardianship and adoption, and disregarded others entirely, such as emancipation.

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AdoptionFiliationLegitimacyMedieval childrenMedieval family
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The Cambridge History of Medieval Canon Law , pp. 475 - 492
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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