— 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).
