Infamy


The infamy in Ancient Rome is what is considered as the "Degradation of civil honor", which consists of the loss of reputation or discredit in which the Roman citizen fell after the Census was carried out by the competent magistrate (Censor). In this way, it was crossed out with a note of Infamy.

Important part of the status of a Roman citizen, was his Existimatio, or stamp of pride that he held before society; and it was this esteem in which the Roman society had it, which was affected by the fact of being branded as infamous. Although infamy does not imply an explicit impediment according to law, in practice tacitly limits the citizen in many areas of legal and social life; not being able, for example, to vote in the elections nor to accede to the positions of popular election; or exercise guardianship or curatelas.

Two types of infamy were distinguished in the Roman Right:

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