Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45679
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Ubaldis , Baldus de, Julius Kirshner and Osvaldo Cavallar
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  • Title: Prohibition of Gifts between Husband and Wife
  • Source: Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts.  Edited by Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner .  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 738 - 758. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv179h1fw.48
    and from De Gruyter: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536336-011
  • Description: Five documents are translated:
    41.1. Dig. 24. 1. 1, Moribus
    41.2. Dig. 24. 1. 2, Non cessat
    41.3. Baldus de Ubaldis, [First] Commentary to Dig. 24. 1. 1, Moribus
    41.4. Baldus de Ubaldis, [Second] Commentary to Dig. 24. 1. 1, Moribus
    41.5. Baldus de Ubaldis, Consilium (ca. 1396-1400)
    Roman law saw gifts between wives and husbands as a threat to the support of children and to the preservation of the two familial patrimonies. In 41.3 Baldus cites the further problem of the spousal demand for immoderate gifts accompanied by the threat of divorce. As documents 41.4 and 41.5 indicate, husbands did seek ways to provide gifts for their wives by confirming the arrangements with a formal oath. Baldus rejects these practices as unlawful.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Family Gifts Husbands Inheritance Law Marriage Wives
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Nanzan University [Cavallar]; University of Chicago [Kirshner- Emeritus Professor]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487507480 (print); 9781487536336 (online)