Definitions of Roman legal terms

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Ingenui

Ingenui or ingenuitas (singular ingenuus), was a legal term of ancient Rome indicating those freemen who were born free, as distinct from, for example, freedmen, who were freemen who had once been slaves.[1]

STUPRUM

1 Roman & civil law : sexual intercourse between a man and an unmarried woman other than one in slavery or concubinage

2 Roman & civil law : illicit intercourse contrary to morality

3 Roman & civil law : unchastity of a woman[2]

References

  1. Long, George (1870). "Ingenui". in Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 637 
  2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stuprum