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Note 481 — Chapter V · - THE MONOGAMIAN FAMILY.

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Item in potestate nostra sunt liberi nostri, quos justis nuptiis procreauimus, quod jus proprium ciuium Romanorum est: fere enim nulli alii sunt homines, qui talem in filios suos habent potestatem, qualem nos habemus.—Inst., 1, 55. Among other things they had the power of life and death—jus vitæ necisque.

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