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... slave ; for an injury or minor outrage , twenty - five asses ; a four - footed beast doing injury might be given up to whomsoever it injured , in lieu of compensation . The nocturnal devastation of crops or the incendiarism of a ...
... slave ; for an injury or minor outrage , twenty - five asses ; a four - footed beast doing injury might be given up to whomsoever it injured , in lieu of compensation . The nocturnal devastation of crops or the incendiarism of a ...
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... slave had no rights . In the earlier days of Roman law , no one would have conceived this to be unnatural . But philosophy , and the study of morality , taught the later Freedom . jurists that the condition of a slave was a violation ...
... slave had no rights . In the earlier days of Roman law , no one would have conceived this to be unnatural . But philosophy , and the study of morality , taught the later Freedom . jurists that the condition of a slave was a violation ...
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... slave , to the slave's master . IV . RIGHTS AGAINST PERSONS . persons . 78. A personal right is , as we have said before , a right which one person has against another ; a right to constrain that other to give something to , or do ...
... slave , to the slave's master . IV . RIGHTS AGAINST PERSONS . persons . 78. A personal right is , as we have said before , a right which one person has against another ; a right to constrain that other to give something to , or do ...
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... slave was that of having no caput . Since freeborn members of a Roman family acquired , as such members , the ... slaves ; in order to determine the capacity of a citizen , we may speak of the position of a Latinus and a peregrinus : in ...
... slave was that of having no caput . Since freeborn members of a Roman family acquired , as such members , the ... slaves ; in order to determine the capacity of a citizen , we may speak of the position of a Latinus and a peregrinus : in ...
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... slaves were incapable of contracting a lawful marriage , in the peculiar sense of lawful ' adopted by Roman law , the children of a female slave were neces- sarily slaves . They were called verne when born and reared on the property of ...
... slaves were incapable of contracting a lawful marriage , in the peculiar sense of lawful ' adopted by Roman law , the children of a female slave were neces- sarily slaves . They were called verne when born and reared on the property of ...
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