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1. Paley's Moral Philosophy, p. 223. Taylor's Elements of the Civil Law, 383. Pufendorf's Droit de la Nature, b. 4. ch. 11. e. 4. and 5.
2. Grotius, b. 2. c. 7. s. 4.
3. Potter's Greek Antiq. vol. ii. 351. Dig. 28. 2. 30. Novel, 115. ch. 3.
4. Laws of N.Y. sess. 36. ch. 78. s. 21, 22.
5. Simpson v. Robertson, 1 Esp. Cases, 17. Ford v. Fothergill, ibid. 211. Stone v. Carr, 3 Esp. Cas. 1. Stanton v. Wilson, 3 Day, 37. Van Valkinburgh v. Watson, 13 Johns. Rep. 480.
6. Hughes v. Hughes, 1 Bro. 387. Whipple v. Dow, 2 Mass. Rep. 415. Dawes v. Howard, 4 Mass. Rep. 97.
7. 1 Lord Raym. 699. Parish of St. Andrews v. Mendez de Bretz.
8. Tubb v. Harrison, 4 Term Rep. 118.
9. Rex v. Munden, 1 Str. 190.
10. Stone v. Carr, 3 Esp. Cases, 1.
11. Billingsly v. Critchet, 1 Bro. 268. Cooper v. Martin, 4 East, 76.
12. Baker v. Keen, 2 Starkie, 501. Valkinburgh v. Watson, 13 Johns. Rep. 480.
13. Lord Eldon, in 3 Esp. Cases, 252. Rawlins v. Van Dyke, 3 Day, 37. Stanton v. Wilson.
14. 1 Black's Com. 453. Reeves' Domestic Relation, 290.
15. 7 Mass. Rep. 145.
16. 1 N. H. Rep. 28.
17. The King v. De Manneville, 5 East, 221.
18. Archer's case, 1 Lord Raym 673. Rex v. Smith, Str. 982. Rex v. Delaval, 3 Burr. 1434. Commonwealth v. Addicks, 5 Binney, 520. The case of McDowles, 8 Johns. Rep. 328. Commonwealth v. Nutt, 1 Brown's Penn. Rep. 143. Creuzer v. Hunter, 2 Cox's Cases, 242. De Manneville v. De Manneville, 10 Vesey, 52.
19. Hall v. Hallander, 4 Barn. & Cress. 860.
20. Pufendorf, b. 4. c.11. s. 5. Paley's Moral Philosophy, p. 224, 225.
21. Plutarch's Life of Solon.
22. States of Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
23. Domestic Relations, p. 287.
24. During the twenty-seven years in which that distinguished lawyer was in extensive practice of the law, he informs us he never found but one person in Connecticut that could not write.
25. Act of 9th of April, 1795, ch. 75.
26. Act of April 2d, 1805, ch. 66.
27. Act of March 13th, 1807, ch. 32.
28. Act of April 9th, 1811, ch. 246. s. 54.
29. Act of June 19th, 1812, ch. 242.
30. Art. 7. sect. 10.
31. Puf. Droit de la Nature, lib. 4. ch. 11. sect. 7.
32. 5 Vesey, 444.
33. Taylor's Elements of the Civil Law, p. 395. 397. 402. Voyage du Anackarsis en Greece, tom. 3. ch. 26. Caesar de Bel. Gal. lib. 6, ch. 18. The exposition of infants, was the horrible and stubborn vice of almost all antiquity. Gibbon's Hist. vol. viii. p. 55-57. Noodt de Partus Expositione et Nece apud veleres; and which is considered to be a singular work of great accuracy on this subject.
34. Liceat eos exheredare, quos occidere licebat. Dig. 28. 2. 11.
35. Numerum liberorum finire, aut quemquam ex agnatis necare, flagilium habetur. plusque ibi boni mores valent, quam alibi bonae leges. Tac. de mor. Ger. c. 19.
36. Dr. Taylor, in his Elements of the Civil Law, p. 403-406, gives a concise history of the progress of the Roman jurisprudence, in its efforts to destroy this monstrous power of the parent; but Bynkershoek has composed a regular treatise, with infinite learning on this subject. It is entitled, Opusculum de jure occidendi, vendendi, et exponendi liberos apud veteres Romanos. Opera, tom. 1. 346. and it led him into some controversy with his predecessor, the learned Noodt, on the doubtful points and recondite learning, attached to that discussion.
37. 1 Hawk. P. C. b. 1. ch. 60. sect. 23.
38. Inst. 2. 9. 1.
39. L. N.Y. sess. 36. ch. 23. sect. 18, 19.
40. No. 488.
41. Instit. Droit Francois, par Argou, b. 1. ch. 7
42. No. 390-402.
43. Litt. sect. 123. 3 Co. 38. Co. Litt. 84. b. 2 Atk. 14. 3 Com. Dig. tit. Guardian, B. D. E. 7 Vesey, 348.
44. Deut. 21:18.
45. Gentoo Code. by Halhed, p. 64. The first emigrants to Massachusetts made filial disobedience a capital crime, according to the Jewish law. Governor Hutchinson, in his History of Massachusetts, vol. i. 441. says that he had met with but one conviction under that sanguinary law, and that offender was reprieved.
46. Ibid, b. 9. v. 454. Odyss. b. 2 v. 134. Hesiod's Oper. & Die. b. 1. v. 182-83.
47. Potter's Greek Antiq. vol. ii. 347-351.
48. Tu, oro, solare inopem et succurre relictae. Aeneid, 9, 283.
49. Laws of N.Y. sess. 36. ch. 78. s. 21.
50. Edwards v. Davis, 16 Johns. Rep. 281. Rex v. Munden, Str. 190
51. 2 Domat. 361. Code Civil, No. 331. 1 Ersk. Inst. 116. Inst. 1. 10. 13. Code, 5. 27. 10. Butler's note, 181. to lib. 3. Co. Litt. Voet. Com. ad Pand. 25. 7. s. 6. and 11. Dissertation dans laquelle on discute les Principes du Droit Romain, et du Droit Francois, par rapport aux Batards. Oeuvres de Chancelier D'Aguesseau, tom. 7. 381. 470.
52. Com. vol. i. 455.
53. It is a remarkable fact, however, that in eleven of the United States, the rule of the civil law prevails on this point, viz. in Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio. Griffith's Law Reg. passim.
54. 1 Black. Com. 456. Stat. of Merton, 20. Hen. III. ch. 9.
55. Ch. 9. s. 2.
56. P. 38.
57. No. 331, 332, 333, 335.
58. Com. ad Pand. 25. 7. s. 11.
59. Cro. Jac. 541. Co. Litt. 244. a. 1 Blacks. Com. 456, 457.
60. 3 P. Wms. 275, 276. Str. 925. Salk. 123. Harg. note, No. 192 to lib. 2. Co. Litt. Butler's note No. 178. to lib. 3. Co. Litt. 4 Term. Rep 251. 356. 4 Bro. 90. 8 East, 123. Code Napoleon, No. 312-318. Com. Dig tit. Bastard, A. B.
61. Co Litt. 123. a.
62. Inst. 1. 10. 12.
63. 1 Blacks. Com. 459.
64. Note C. to Fortescue de laud. leg. Ang. ch. 40.
65. This is understood to be the law in Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and, under certain modifications, in Louisiana. Griffith's Register, passim. In Louisiana, if a married man pretending to be single, deceives a woman, the wife and children are entitled to all the rights of a legitimate wife and children. Christy's Dig. tit. Husband and Wife, 2.
66. 5 Conn. Rep. 228
67. Brown v. Dye, 2 Root, 280.
68. Code, lib. 6. 57. 5.
69. Buller, .J. 1. Term. Rep. 101. Bow v. Nottingham, 1 N.H. Rep. 260.
70. Haines v. Jeffel, 1 Lord Raym. 68.
71. King v. Inhabitants of Hodnett, 1 Term Rep. 96.
72. 3 Johns. Rep. 15. 17 Johns. Rep. 41. 12 Mass Rep. 429. 5 Conn.Rep. 584.
73. Oeuvres D'Agnesseau, tom. 7. 384, 385. Butler's note, No. 176. to lib. 3 Co. Litt. 1 Blacks. Com. 459.
74. Potter's Greek Antiq. vol. ii. 340. Gentoo code, by Halhed, p. 73. The protection and tenderness which the Goddess Fortune is supposed to bestow upon foundlings, is, says Mr. Gifford, one of the most amusing and animated pictures that the keen and vigorous fancy of Juvenal ever drew:
Arridens nudis infantibus. Hos fovet omnes,
Involvitque situ. Sat. 6. v. 603-605.
75. Laws of N.Y. sess. 36. ch. 12.
76. Hesketh v. Gowing, 5 Esp. N. P. Rep. 131.
77. The King v. Soper, 5 Term Rep. 278. The People v. Landt, 2 Johns. Rep. 375. Carpenter v. Whitman, 15 Johns. Rep. 208. Wright v.Wright, 2 Mass. Rep. 109.
78. Rex v. Cornforth, Str. 1162.
79. Marchioness of Annandale v. Harris, 2 P. Wms. 432. Florton v. Gibson, 4 S. Car. Equity Rep. 139. Bunn v. Winthrop, 1 Johns. Ch. Rep. 338.
80. Prec. in Ch. 475. 1 Eq. Cas. Abr. 128. pl. 9. Gilb. Eq. Rep. 339. Gilb. E. R. 256.
81. 2 P. Wms. 432.