Glossary : contubernium
Definition 1
civ. law. As among the Romans, slaves had no civil
state, their marriages, although valid according to natural law, when contr
acted with the consent of their masters, and when there was no legal bar
to them, yet were without civil effects; they having none except what arose
from natural law; a marriage of this kind was called contubernium. It was
so called whether both or only one of the parties was a slave. Poth. Contr.
de Mariage, part 1, c. 2, 4. Vicat, ad verb.
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