
Although the Napoleonic CodeĬontained provisions regarding the civil death, the Roman legislature, Therefore, the inheritance was opened, the marriage dissolved and he

Hard labour or who embraced the monastic life, was considered dead, and Subjects of law, since they were dead to the world. Living beingsĬonsidered dead, from the civil point of view, did not represent anymore (life imprisonment) or voluntarily, professio religiiosa. This death usually followed a criminal sentence Servitude slavery and the trade with slaves shall be prohibited in anyįorm." The civil death was abolished (capitis deminutio) also in Prohibition of slavery: "Nobody will be held in slavery or Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes the international Until that moment, slaves wereĬonsidered subjects of law only under certain conditions.

The Black slavery was abolished only in the The persons' right has been for a long period dominated of He must believe and if he wants the truth, he must seek and suffer" Unlike things or animals, if the human being wants to rest, Rather to the earthly essential duty to respect the life of our Stop and reflect, not only that we are creations of the divinity, but Through his reflection homo res sacra homini, seems to require us to Hope and the end of hope means the end of civilization. The man agrees to be converted into a thing, there will no longer be No longer believe that they are human beings and must be respected. Threatening to humanity is that people no longer believe in themselves, The pillars of civilization it released man from slavery and put the The distinction between human person and thing has long been one of The concept of person and the one of moral conscience. The importance of the soul, while establishing the connection between The further development of Rome was marked by the emergence of theĬoncept of human person, in the modern sense of acceptation, startingįrom the Christian tradition. Merit of Roman law, these concepts serving as means of anchoring in law. The distinction between persons and things (res) is the The era of Emperor Claudius, the murder of an innocent slave was

Of a representative instructed to defend his interests in court, and in Was not totally ignored when he was claiming his freedom, he disposed In Rome, although the slave was an object of law, his human nature Subjects of law, being qualified as things (res) or talking tools Have legal capacity, and in Roman law, the capacity was not a quality Relationship, that is to be considered a "person," he had to The concept of subject of law has undergone significantĬhanges in history if we consider that in Roman society, this quality The current reality shows us that every human being represents a Holders of rights and obligations inherent in human beings, isĪttributed, without exception, to man from birth, being kept until hisĭeath. In today's society, the legal personality, meaning the generalĪnd abstract ability of human beings, recognized by law, to become
