The first person in Roman law was the citizen. He was devined as anyone who had been accepted into a Roman tribe by birth, adoption, emancipation, or governmental grant. Within this franchise were three grades: (1) full citizens, who enjoyed the fourfold right of voting ( ius suffragii) , of holding office ( ius honorum ), of marriage with a freeborn person ( ius connubii ), and of engaging in commercial contracts protected by Roman law ( ius commercii ); (2) “citizens withou