Patria Potestas

• Patria Potestas meant ‘The Power of the Father’.
• Under civil Roman Law the Child was the Legal Property of the Father or Paterfamilias.

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• The Father had the Power to sell his children into Slavery. But if the child was sold more than 3 times he was no longer subject to Patria Potestas.
• The Paterfamilias also held Patria Potestas over his Slaves.