latini juniani

Latini Juniani (l[schwa]-tI-nI joo-nee-ay-nI), n. pl.[Latin “Junian Latins”] Roman law. Informally manumitted slaves who acquired some rights and privileges as free people, but not Roman citizenship. • They were a special class of freedmen (libertini) who could one day become citizens. If a Latinus Junianus did not become a citizen, then upon death that person’s status reverted to slavery, and his or her patron acquired all the decedent’s property.

— Also termed libertine Junian Latins. See LEX JUNIA NORBANA. Cf. INGENUUS; SERVUS(1).

“Upon all these persons … a new and definite status was conferred; they were henceforth to be known as Latini Juniani, their position being based upon Latinitas, a status which had been enjoyed by certain Latin colonists. A Latinus Junianus had no public rights …. But he had part of the commercium, i.e. he could acquire proprietary and other rights inter vivos, but not mortis causâ. A Latinus Junianus, therefore, could neither take under a will … nor could he make one …. But, subject to these disabilities, a Latinus Junianus was a free man, and his children, though not, like the children of citizens, under his potestas, were free-born citizens.” R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 68–69 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).

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