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... were descended from a common ancestor , and the families of the gens were sub- divisions of the same ancestral stock , but both individuals and groups were occasionally admitted from outside . A pure unspotted pedigree was claimed by ...
... were descended from a common ancestor , and the families of the gens were sub- divisions of the same ancestral stock , but both individuals and groups were occasionally admitted from outside . A pure unspotted pedigree was claimed by ...
Page xi
... were familiar was sacred to some patron god . The calendar was marked out by the services of religion ; the pleasure ... were in a position of dependence on the king or on members of the populus , and were , as strangers , outside the ...
... were familiar was sacred to some patron god . The calendar was marked out by the services of religion ; the pleasure ... were in a position of dependence on the king or on members of the populus , and were , as strangers , outside the ...
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... were made , were first proposed , arranged , and determined on by the Senate , under the guidance of its chief magistrate , the king , and then submitted to the highest source of power , the comitia curiata . After the institution of ...
... were made , were first proposed , arranged , and determined on by the Senate , under the guidance of its chief magistrate , the king , and then submitted to the highest source of power , the comitia curiata . After the institution of ...
Page xv
... were to be in perpetual tutorship , except the vestal virgins . As a man disposed by testament , so was the law to be ; but if he died intestate , and without a suus heres , his nearest agnati , or , in default of agnati , the gentiles , ...
... were to be in perpetual tutorship , except the vestal virgins . As a man disposed by testament , so was the law to be ; but if he died intestate , and without a suus heres , his nearest agnati , or , in default of agnati , the gentiles , ...
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... were the leading features of the jus civile . We need not at present do more than say that , when a student of Roman law has made himself acquainted with its elementary doctrines , he will find that the chief of these peculiar ...
... were the leading features of the jus civile . We need not at present do more than say that , when a student of Roman law has made himself acquainted with its elementary doctrines , he will find that the chief of these peculiar ...
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