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Philosophy of Right - Volume 5

Rights in the Family
Contents

 

Section Two - Parental Society

Introduction

Chapter 1

The principle determining the jural relationships between father, mother and children

 

Article 1

The principle declared

 

Article 2

Application of the principle for determining the difference of patria potestas in the father and in the mother

 

Article 3

Application of the principle to determine the nature of patria potestas in general

Chapter 2

Limitations of patria potestas

 

Article 1

Patria potestas cannot harm the pure, formal rights of the child

 

Article 2

Patria potestas cannot take a child's life

 

Article 3

Patria potestas cannot sell a child as a bond-servant

 

Article 4

Patria potestas cannot inflict any punishment nor cause any harm to the child unless this is necessary for the ordained good of the family

Chapter 3

Patria postestas can do all that is required for the ordained good of the family

 

Article 1

Unlawfulness of a power, and unlawfulness in the way it is exercised

 

Article 2

The ordained good of the family

 

Article 3

Continuation: the value of each member of a family in the sum total of the good of the body

 

Article 4

The relative proportions of seigniorial and governmental right found in patria potestas

 

Article 5

Comment on Roman legislation about patria potestas

Chapter 4

The jural rights and purely moral rights of parents

Chapter 5

Jural blood-relationships, social domestic relationships and civil-domestic relationships between parents and children

 

Article 1

Jural blood-relationships between parents and their children

 

Article 2

Socio-domestic relationships between parents and children

 

Article 3

The jural civil-domestic relationships between parents and children

Conclusion

Appendix

 

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