Note 101 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
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Paulus in Dig. 28, 2, 11 “in suis heredibus evidentius apparet continuationem dominii eo rem perducere, ut nulla videatur hereditas fuisse, quasi olim hi domini essent, qui etiam vivo patre quodammodo domini existimantur.” What the filius familias acquires by the death of his father is merely libera bonorum administratio.