Териториална организация и местна интеграция
Territorial organization and local integration

Fundamental rights and obligations of CIVES and INCOLAE

Author(s): Maria Luisa Lopez Huget
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Roman law
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: territorial organization; local integration
Summary/Abstract: This article is about the problems of the territorial organization in The Roman Empire and the integration of its population. It traces the statute of cives and incolae, as two different categories of roman citizens who have not only different positions in terms of personal law, but different obligations towards the state and the municipes as well. This article also traces the two-sided commitment of persons with particular territorial structures – by origin (origo) and by domicile (domicilium), as well as the access to the local municipal positions, the duties for munera civilia, the submission to local jurisdiction (forum originis or forum domicilii), the observance of the local laws and the possible collision between them and so on. The examples given in the article illustrate the legal situation in which Roman law had to “coexist” and to accept the features of the common customs and laws, which is considered to be one of the possible reasons for the appearance of the so called vulgarized Roman law.

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