Note 116 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME
Reading edition
See Eisele “Zur Natur u. Geschichte der capitis deminutio” in Beiträge zur Römischen Rechtsgeschichte p. 160. He combats the counter view that capitis dem. meant an annihilation of personality. Mommsen (Staatsr. iii. 8) takes this latter view—a natural result of juristic refinement, but a conception that would have been quite unintelligible to a primitive community.