Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

latini juniani

n. [Latin] Roman law. A class of former slaves who, although they were freed, did not acquire full rights of citizenship. - Also spelled latini iuniani. - Also termed libertini. See LEX JUNIA NORBANA. Cf. INGENUUS; SERVUS. "Upon all these persons ... a new and definite status was conferred; they were henceforth to be known as Latini Juniani, their position being based upon Latinitas, a status which had been enjoyed by certain Latin colonists. A Latinus Junianus had no public rights But he had part of the commercium, i.e. he could acquire proprietary and other rights inter vivos, but not mortis causd. A Latinus Junianus, therefore, could neither take under a will nor could he make one But, subject to these disabilities, a Latinus Junianus was a free man, and his children, though not, like the children of citizens, under his potestas, were free-born citizens." R.W. Leage, Roman Private Law 68-69 (C.H. Ziegler ed., 2d ed. 1930).