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In a similar way as the matrimonial impediments are regulated nowadays in our Spanish legal System, Roman Law tried to systematize the numerous marriages that did not have the conditions required to form a legitimate classic marriage or iustum matrimonium. In this sense, with the accomplishment of the writing that follow we pretend to investigate what are the difficulties of the sources to define etymologically the term impedimentum, and how these limitations evolved in the laws promulgated by Augustus and Constantine, paying special attention to the case of the impediments to the promises of future marriage or roman betrothal. The above will serve us, in any case, to provide a classification of these marriage restrictions and we understand the reason for the extramarital unions sine conubio and the possible illegality of such casual encounters; highlighting, finally, the controversial case of intersexuality in a time of generalized crisis such as we are living in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]