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Note 115 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME

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This usage was preserved in the praetor’s edict; he spoke of “qui quaeve ... capite deminuti deminutaeve esse dicentur” (Dig. 4, 5, 2, 1), meaning what the later jurists call cap. dem. minima, i.e. loss of familia.

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