This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... is not in your power, but in the power of his father. 56. Roman citizens contract lawful marriages, if they have married Roman citizens, or even Latins or aliens, with whom they have Title x. Of marriage. Roman citizens contract lawful marriages between themselves when they unite in conformity with the law, the males ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... is not in your power, but in the power of his father. 56. Roman citizens contract lawful marriages, if they have married Roman citizens, or even Latins or aliens, with whom they have Title x. Of marriage. Roman citizens contract lawful marriages between themselves when they unite in conformity with the law, the males having attained the the right of intermarriage; and since this right so operates as to make the children of the same condition as their father, it follows that they become not only Roman citizens, but also that they are in the power of their father. 57. Hence, after due enquiry, it has been customary by imperial constitutions to grant the right of intermarriage to certain classes of veterans with those Latins or aliens whom they have first married after obtaining their discharge, and the children born from these marriages are both Roman citizens and are in the power of their ascendants. 58. It is however to be observed that it is not lawful to marry any woman we please, for from certain marriages we are bound to abstain. 59. Marriage cannot be contracted between persons standing to each other in the relation of ascendant and descendant, for no right of intermarriage exists between them; as for example, between father and daughter, mother and son, grandfather and granddaughter; and if such persons do unite they are considered to have contracted a wicked and incestuous marriage, and this is carried so far that ascendants and descendants, who are only so by adoption, cannot intermarry; and even after the adoption has beendissolved, the rule still holds; therefore I cannot marry a woman who has been in the position of daughter or granddaughter by adoption to me, although I have emancipated her. 60. Similar remark...
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