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Note 97 — Chapter I · THE EARLIEST CONSTITUTION OF ROME

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Ulpian Reg. 19, 1; Gaius ii. 15. Res mancipi at a later period included lands in Italy (with their servitudes), slaves and quadrupedes quae dorso collove domantur. In the expression familia pecuniaque, “familia” probably denotes the slaves. Pierron (Du sens des mots familia pecuniaque) has shown the theory of Ihering and Cuq, that the former denotes res mancipi, the latter res nec mancipi, to be untenable.

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