The status of a person was determined by reference to all the rights, capacities and powers attributed to them.
The most important factors influencing a person's status were: (a) whether one was a free man or a slave; (b) whether one held Roman citizenship or not; and (c) one's position as a member of a family.
G. Mousourakis, Fundamentals of Roman Private Law, 85
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29311-5_2, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
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