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The Institutes of Justinian

Book 1 — TITLE XVIII. OF THE STATUTORY GUARDIANSHIP OF PARENTS

John Baron Moyle translation

The analogy of the patron guardian led to another kind of socalled statutory guardianship, namely that of a parent over a son or daughter, or a grandson or granddaughter by a son, or any other descendant through males, whom he emancipates below the age of puberty: in which case he will be statutory guardian.

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