Note 65 — XI THE LAW OF NATURE

There remained as aliens (1) the class called dediticii, the lowest species of freedmen, (2) persons deprived of citizenship as a punishment for crime, (3) foreigners, i.e. subjects of some other State temporarily resident in the Empire, and probably also persons imperfectly manumitted subsequently to the Edict, together (possibly) with the inhabitants of territories added to the Empire subsequently to the Edict. See Muirhead (Historical Introduction to the Private Law of Rome, 2nd edition, by Professor Goudy, p. 319), and, for a fuller discussion of the topic, Mitteis, Reichsrecht und Volksrecht in den östlichen Provinzen des Römischen Kaiserreichs, chap. vi.