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... order of the State gave great additional importance and strength to the comitia tributa , as having to elect magistrates , protected themselves by a sacred character , and specially commissioned to maintain the interest of so large a ...
... order of the State gave great additional importance and strength to the comitia tributa , as having to elect magistrates , protected themselves by a sacred character , and specially commissioned to maintain the interest of so large a ...
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... orders were placed on an equal footing . We may take the year 467 A.U.C. , the date of the lex Hortensia , as the period when we can first pronounce that the distinction of the two orders was really done away . When that law had been ...
... orders were placed on an equal footing . We may take the year 467 A.U.C. , the date of the lex Hortensia , as the period when we can first pronounce that the distinction of the two orders was really done away . When that law had been ...
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... order in which Gaius treats his subject , and adopted his exposition of law , so far as it was applicable to the times in which the Institutes of Justinian were composed . The work of Gaius , therefore , showing us what was common to ...
... order in which Gaius treats his subject , and adopted his exposition of law , so far as it was applicable to the times in which the Institutes of Justinian were composed . The work of Gaius , therefore , showing us what was common to ...
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... order to preserve the symmetry of the system , was treated by law as a daughter . * If a daughter married , she left this family , and passed into the family of her husband ; but if a son married , all his children were as much in the ...
... order to preserve the symmetry of the system , was treated by law as a daughter . * If a daughter married , she left this family , and passed into the family of her husband ; but if a son married , all his children were as much in the ...
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... order that , when two persons came together in marriage , the wife should be in the power of her husband , she was sold to the husband by the father , a pro- cess which was termed coemptio , or if she remained with her husband a year ...
... order that , when two persons came together in marriage , the wife should be in the power of her husband , she was sold to the husband by the father , a pro- cess which was termed coemptio , or if she remained with her husband a year ...
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