Of the Origin and Revolutions of the Roman Laws on Successions
FOOTNOTES
1. Dionysius Halicarnassus, ii. 3. Plutarch's comparison between Numa and Lycurgus.
2. Ast si intestato moritur cui suus hµres nec exhabit, agnatus proximus familiam habeto. Fragment of the law of the Twelve Tables in Ulpian, the last title.
3. See Ulpian, Fragment., º 8, tit. 26. Institutes, tit. 3, In prµmio ad S.C. Tertullianum.
4. Paul, Sentences, tit. 8, º 3.
5. Institutes, iii, tit. 1, º 15.
6. Book iv, p. 276.
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., i.
11. Institutes, ii, tit. 10, º 1. Aulus Gellius, xv. 27. They called this form of testament per µs et libram.
12. Ulpian, tit. 10, º 2.
13. Theophilus, Institutes, ii, tit. 10.
14. Livy, iv, Nondum argentum signatum erat. He speaks of the time of the siege of Veii.
15. Tit. 20, º 13.
16. Institutes, ii, tit. 10, º 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, ii, tit. 23, º 1.
20. Ad liberos matris intestatµ hµredit as, leg. 12 Tab., non pertinebat, quia, fµminµ suos hµredes non habent. Ulpian, Fragment., tit. 26, º 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, xli we should read Voconius, instead of Voluminus.
22. Sanxit . . . . . ne quis hµredem virginern neve mulierem faceret. -- Cicero, Second Oration against Verres, 107.
23. Legem tulit, ne quis hµredem mulierem institueret -- Book xli.
24. Second Oration against Verres.
25. City of God, iii. 21.
26. Epitome of Livy, xli.
27. Book xvii, 6.
28. Institutes, ii, tit. 22
29. Ibid.
30. Nemo censuit plus Fadiµ dandum, quam posset ad cam lege Voconia pervenire. De Finib. boni et mali, ii. 55.
31. Cum lege Voconia mulieribus prohiberetur, ne qua majorem centum millibus nummum hµreditatem posset adire. Book lvi.
32. Qui census esset. Second Oration against Verres.
33. Census non erat. Ibid.
34. Book iv.
35. Oratio pro Cµcinna.
36. These five classes were so considerable, that authors sometimes mention no more than five.
37. In Cµritum tabulas referri; µrarius fieri.
38. Cicero, De Finib. boni et mali, ii. 58.
39. Ibid.
40. Sextilius said he had sworn to observe it. -- Cicero, De Finib. boni et mali, ii. 55.
41. See what has been said in xxiii. 21.
42. The same difference occurs in several regulations of the Papian law. See Ulpian, Fragment. tit. ult., ºº 4, 5, 6.
43. See Ulpian, Fragment., tit. 15, º 16.
44. Quod tibi filiolus, vel filia nascitur ex me, Jura Parentis habes; propter me scriberis hµres. -- Juvenal, Sat. ix. 5, 83, 87.
45. See Leg. 9, Cod. Theod. De bonis proscriptorum, and Dio, lv. See Ulpian, Fragment., tit. ult., º 6, and tit. 29, º 3.
46. Ulpian, Fragment., tit. 16, º 1. Sozomenus, i. 29.
47. Book xx. 1.
48. Book iv, tit. 8, º 3.
49. Tit. 26, º 6.
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, º 4, de senatus consult. Tertul.
52. Leg. 9, Cod. de suis et legitimis liberis.
53. Leg. 12, ibid., and Nov. 118, 127.
