Sexual Offences

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Sexual Offences

• Stuprum and Adultery

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Stuprum

• Stuprum sexual immorality that could include
  adultery (before Augustus)
• stuprum - sex with a marriageable girl/woman
• With under-aged girl

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The Augustan Marriage legislation

• Purpose to promote marriage and child-bearing
  and to repress adultery and extra-marital sex
• 1. 18 B.C. lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus
  (Julian law on the regulating the marriages of
  the social orders)
• 2. 18 B.C.? Lex Julia de adulteriis (Julian law
  on adultery)
• 3. A.D. 9 lex Papia-Poppaea (Papian-Poppeian law)
  
• More details in Gardner - Women in Roman Law ..