Note 235-4 — Chapter II
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
Customary even in the early Roman republic, and adjudged exemplo furioso. (Ulpian, in L. 1 Digest, XXVII, 10.) The immediate knights of the empire were in this respect very severe towards those of their own order. See Kerner, Reichsrittersch. Staatsrecht, II, 381 ff. Sully ordered the parliaments to warn spendthrifts, to punish them and place them under guardianship. (Economies royales, L, XXVI.) According to Montesquieu, it is a genuine aristocratic maxim to hold the nobility to a punctual payment of their debts. (Esprit des Lois, V, 8.)