On Status System Of Ancient Roman Law And Status Right Of Modern Civil Law

The Status Right is one of the important types of rights, on which the domestic scholars of civil law have done few researches. At present, the theory system of the Status Right has not come into being in our country. In the first part of this paper, the author introduces the status system of the Ancient Roman Law, and concludes that in the ancient times the status had a natural and close relationship with the capacity of civil right as well as the capacity of disposition, and the status was the basement of power and an important means of social organization. In the second part, the author elaborates on the status and the Status Right. During the Middle Ages, with the development of the capitalist production relations, the Status Society had changed into the Bond Society. In the Bond Society, the status must be equal and private, while Status Right in the modern civil law has its own definition, which includes the Spouse Right, the Parental Right and the Domestic Relation Right. In the third part, the author introduces the history of the status law system of our country, analyses all the theories about the Status Right of the domestic scholars. In the fourth part, the author researches into the object of the Status Right, and concludes that the object of the Status Right refers to the opposite person of the Status Right. In the last part, the author discusses the specific contents of the Spouse Right, the Parental Right and the Domestic Relation Right.