Justinian, 39;
powers of Praetor, 37, 39;
Praetorian edict, 24, 25;
Responsa Prudentum, 20, 21, 24;
reverence of Romans for, 22;
Statute Law, 25;
Twelve Tables, 1, 8, 9, 12, 20

Rousseau, on Social Contract, 181

Savigny, 171;
on occupancy, 150

Slavery, American opinions of, 96;
influence of Law of Nature upon, 97;
Roman system, 95-97

Status, definition of, 100

Testamentary Law, adoption and testation, 114, 115;
Church's influence upon, 102;
corporation, aggregate and sole, 110;
Hindoo Law, 113, 114;
Hindoo compared with Roman, 113;
Law of Nature, 103, 104;
Roman Law, 111, 112, 117-123;
mancipation, 120, 123;
Praetorian testament, 123-125;
Twelve Tables, 112, 119, 122;
Roman family, agnatic and cognatic relationship, 86-89;
duties and rights of father, 85;
effects of Christianity, 92;
family, the basis of State, 75, 76;
kinship, 86, 88;
modification of parental privileges, 84;
origin of contract in, 99;
origin of law of persons, 89;
parental powers, 80-82, 88

Theology, and Jurisprudence, 208-210;
moral, 204, 205

Theories, based on Roman doctrine, Bentham, 69;
Blackstone, 67;
differing from Roman Glossators, annotations of, 67;
Grotius, 67;
Jurisprudence, dissatisfaction with, 70;
Locke, 67;
Montesquieu, 68;
patriarchal, 72-75

Universal succession, 106;
in Roman Law, 106, 107

"Universatis Juris," 105

Village communities, Indian, 153, 154, 156, 158;
Indian, compared with Roman gens, 155;
Indian, Elphinstone, _History of India_, 155, 156;
Russian 157

Women, ancient rules defeated by Natural Law, 90;
Canon Law, 93;
English Common Law, 93, 94;
Roman family, 90, 91;
gradual independence under Roman Law, 91, 92;
Roman, perpetual tutelage of, 90;
under Roman Law, 89, 90;
subordination to husband in Middle Ages, 92;
subordination of Roman to relations, 90

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