Footnotes
[23]
Judicio de moribus (quod antea quidem in antiquis legibus
positum erat, non autem frequentabatur) penitus abolito. Leg. 11. "Cod.
de repud."
[24]
Judicia extraordinaria.
[25]
It was entirely abolished by Constantine: "It is a shame," said
he, "that settled marriages should be disturbed by the presumption of
strangers."
[26]
Sextus Quintus ordained, that if a husband did not come and make
his complaint to him of his wife's infidelity, he should be put to
death. See Leti, Life of Sextus V.
