Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools (2nd ed)

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rs, and the insolence of more powerful citizens. After the expulsion of Tarquin, a law was made by Brutus, that no one should be king at Rome, and that whoever should f

who appealed could in no way be punished, until the people determined th

the life of a Roman citizen. No magistrate could punish him by stripes or capital

r creditors, to be bound in fetters and cords, and although they did not entirely lose the rights of

o debtors should be kept in irons, or in bonds; that the goods of

em from prison, demanded an entire abolition of debt, whic

e of the same family failed, those of the same gens succeeded in preference to relations by the mother's side of the same family. No one could pass fr

ave, barbarian or foreigner, unle

ot only expose them when infants, but when grown up he might imprison, scourge, send th

is father's consent, and what he thus acqu

right, and were held sacred, as altars, temples, or any thing publicly consecrated to the gods, by the

re either public and common, as the air, running water, the sea and

e a will, or be witnesses to a tes

weigher and witness, the testator by an imaginary sale disposed of his family and property to one who was called famili? emptor, who was not the heir as some have

called hologr?phum-sometimes it was written by a friend, or by others. Thus the tes

ir seals or rings. They were likewise tied with a thread drawn thrice through holes and sealed; like

in a temple with the keeper of it. Thus Julius C?sar is said to

relation by the father's side. When there was no guardian by testament, nor a legal one, the pr?tor and the majority of the t

f importance without the concurrence of