Nexum
The Nexum was a form of guarantee, surely solemn, between a debtor and his creditor. The Roman law codified it during the drafting of the Loi of the Twelve Tables.
With the acceptance of the nexum, the debtor provided like guarantee of the loan, his own control - or that of a member of his family on whom it had the patrias potestas , a son for example - for the creditor until the extinction of the debt. The payment of the debt could be regulated cash, by section or even in kind, for one limited duration or not. However not having its time, the refunding of the debt with the peculium of the slave depends on goodwill of the Master.
Surely by its scarcity, the event of release could be celebrated in an official way in front of the Magistrat S of the city, it was the solutio per aes and libram .
The nexum , seems to be abolished towards -342 or -326 or towards -312 by Appius Claudius Caecus by the Lex poetelia, this reform is concomitant with another to support the recruitment of troops during the Guerres samnites.
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