IV. Die persönliche Haftung des filius familias

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Abstract The Personal Liability of the filius familas. According to the predominant view, classical Roman law allowed a filius familias to enter into an obligation and to be sued by his creditors, but it allowed no execution against a filius familias while he remained in the potestas of the pater familias. This paper critically examines the arguments on which this view is based; its author pleads for taking into account the possibility of an execution on the person of the filius familias.