Footnotes
[1]
Dionysius Halicarnassus, lib. ii, c. 3. Plutarch's comparison between
Numa and Lycurgus.
[2]
Ast si intestato moritur cui suus hæres nec exhabit, agnatus
proximus familiam habeto. Fragment of the law of the Twelve Tables in
Ulpian, the last title.
[3]
See Ulpian, Fragment., section 8, tit. 26. Institutes, tit. 3, In
præmio ad S.C. Tertullianum.
[4]
Paul, Sentences, tit. 8, section 3.
[5]
"Institutes," lib. iii, tit. 1, section 15.
[7]
Dionysius Halicarnassus proves, by a law of Numa, that the law
which permitted a father to sell his son three times was made by
Romulus, and not by the Decemvirs. — Book ii.
[8]
See Plutarch, "Solon."
[9]
This testament, called in procinctu, was different from that
which they styled military, which was established only by the
constitutions of the emperors. Leg. 1, ff. de militari testamento. This
was one of the artifices by which they cajoled the soldiers.
[10]
This testament was not in writing, and it was without formality,
sine libr et tabulis, as Cicero says, "De Orat.," lib. i.
[11]
"Institutes," lib. ii, tit. 10, section 1. Aulus Gellius, xv. 27. They
called this form of testament per æs et libram.
[12]
Ulpian, tit. 10, section 2.
[13]
Theophilus, "Institutes," lib. ii, tit. 10.
[14]
Livy, lib. iv, Nondum argentum signatum erat. He speaks of the time
of the siege of Veii.
[15]
Tit. 20, section 13.
[16]
"Institutes," lib. ii, tit. 10, section 1.
[17]
Let Titus be my heir.
[18]
Vulgar, pupillary, and exemplary.
[19]
Augustus, for particular reasons, first began to authorise the
fiduciary bequest, which, in the Roman law, was called fidei commissum.
"Institutes," lib. ii, tit. 23, section 1.
[20]
Ad liberos matris intestatæ hæredit as, leg. 12 Tab., non
pertinebat, quia, fœminæ suos hæredes non habent. Ulpian,
"Fragment.," tit. 26, section 7.
[21]
It was proposed by Quintus Voconius, tribune of the people, in
the year 585 of Rome, 169 B.C. See Cicero, "Second Oration against
Verres." In the "Epitome" of Livy, lib. xli we should read Voconius, instead of
Voluminus.
[22]
Sanxit . . . . . ne quis hæredem virginern neve mulierem faceret.
-- Cicero, "Second Oration against Verres," 107.
[23]
Legem tulit, ne quis hæredem mulierem institueret — Book iv.
[24]
"Second Oration against Verres."
[25]
"City of God," lib. iii. 21.
[26]
Epitome of Livy, lib. xl.
[28]
"Institutes," lib. iii, tit. 22
[30]
Nemo censuit plus Fadiæ dandum, quam posset ad cam lege Voconia
pervenire. "De Finib. boni et mali," lib. vi. 55.
[31]
"Cum lege Voconia mulieribus prohiberetur, ne qua majorem centum
millibus nummum hæreditatem posset adire." Book lxvi.
[32]
Qui census esset. "Second Oration against Verres."
[33]
Census non erat. Ibid.
[35]
In "Oratione pro Cæcinna."
[36]
These five classes were so considerable, that authors sometimes
mention no more than five.
[37]
In Cæritum tabulas referri; ærarius fieri.
[38]
Cicero, De Finib. boni et mali, lib. ii. 58.
[40]
Sextilius said he had sworn to observe it. — Cicero, De Finib.
boni et mali, lib. ii, 55.
[41]
See what has been said in Book xxiii, chap. 20.
[42]
The same difference occurs in several regulations of the Papian
law. See Ulpian, "Fragment," tit. ult., sections 4, 5, 6.
[43]
See Ulpian, "Fragment.," tit. 15, section 16.
[44]
Quod tibi filiolus, vel filia nascitur ex me, Jura Parentis
habes; propter me scriberis hæres. -- Juvenal, Sat. ix. 5, 83, 87.
[45]
See Leg. 9, Cod. Theod. De bonis proscriptorum, and Dio, lv. See
Ulpian, "Fragment.," tit. ult., section 6, and tit. 29, section 3.
[46]
Ulpian, "Fragment.," tit. 16, section 1. Sozomenus, lib. i, chapl. 29.
[48]
Book iv, tit. 8, section 3.
[50]
That is, the Emperor Pius who changed his name to that of Adrian
by adoption.
[51]
Leg. 2, Cod. de jure liberorum. "Institutes," tit. 3, section 4, de
senatus consult. Tertul.
[52]
Leg. 9, Cod. de suis et legitimis hæredibus.
[53]
Leg. 14, ibid., and Nov. 118, 127.
