of a 'consobrinus' or 'consobrina,' of an 'amitinus' or
'amitina,' and first cousins once removed, that is to say, the children
of a great-uncle or great-aunt paternal or maternal.

6 In the sixth degree, upwards, are the great-grandfather's
great-grandfather and great-grandmother; downwards, the great-grandchildren
of a great-grandchild, and in the collateral line the great-grandchildren
of a brother or sister, as also the brother and sister of a
great-great-grandfather or great-great-grandmother, and second cousins,
that is to say, the children of 'fratres-' or 'sorores patrueles,' of
'consobrini,' or of 'amitini.'

7 This will be enough to show how the degrees of relationship are
reckoned; for from what has been said it is easy to understand how we
ought to calculate the remoter degrees also, each generation always
adding one degree: so that it is far easier to say in what degree any
one is related to some one else than to indicate his relationship by the
proper specific term.

8 The degrees of agnation are also reckoned in the same manner;

9 but as truth is fixed in the mind of man much better by the eye than
by the ear, we have deemed it necessary, after giving an account of the
degree of relationship, to have a table of them inserted in the present
book, that so the youth may be able by both ears and eyes to gain a most
perfect knowledge of them. [Note:--the pedagogical table is omitted in
the present edition.]

10 It is certain that the part of the Edict in which the possession
of goods is promised to the next of kin has nothing to do with the
relationships of slaves with one another, nor is there any old
statute by which such relationships were recognised. However, in
the constitution which we have issued with regard to the rights of
patrons--a subject which up to our times had been most obscure, and
full of difficulties and confusion--we have been prompted by humanity
to grant that if a slave shall beget children by either a free woman
or another slave, or conversely if a slave woman shall bear children of
either sex by either a freeman or a slave, and both the parents and the
children (if born of a slave woman) shall become free, or if the mother
being free, the father be a slave, and subsequently acquire his freedom,
the children shall in all these cases succeed their father and mother,
and the patron's rights lie dormant. And such children we have called
to the succession not only of their parents, bu