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A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3

Note 70 — Chapter I · THE PATRIARCHAL THEORY

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Although the married son possessed a hearth and was a free member of the gens, "his house did not become fully independent in religious and property matters till the death of the father and the final division of the property."—Botsford, Athenian Constitution, 27, and the sources there cited. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 326 ff.; Leist, Alt-arisches Jus Gentium, 124.

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