Note 583 — Chapter III · THE CLASSES OF THE POPULATION AND THE THEORY OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE DEVELOPED REPUBLIC
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Suet. Caes. 48; Val. Max. 6, 1, 4. Willems (Droit Public i. p. 125 n. 8) remarks that there is nothing to show that this power was exercised over justi liberti. The freedmen so punished may have been informally manumitted. For the relegation of a freedman by his patronus see Tac. Ann. xiii 26.