Roman Law, _see_ separate headings Contracts, Criminal, Property, Occupancy, Testamentary; Decemviral Law, 20; definition of inheritance, 107; end of period of jurists, 40; influence of Praetor, 38; intestacy, 127-130; law of inheritance, 111; Leges Corneliae, 24, 25; Leges Juliae, 25; marriage, 91; obligation in, 190, 191, 195, 197; Pandects of Justinian, 39; powers of Praetor, 37, 39; Praetorian edict, 24, 25; Responsa Prudentum, 20, 21, 24; reverence of Romans for, 22; Statute Law, 25; Twelve Tables, 1, 8, 9, 12, 20 Rousseau, on Social Contract, 181 Savigny, 171; on occupancy, 150 Slavery, American opinions of, 96; influence of Law of Nature upon, 97; Roman system, 95-97 Status, definition of, 100 Testamentary Law, adoption and testation, 114, 115; Church's influence upon, 102; corporation, aggregate and sole, 110; Hindoo Law, 113, 114; Hindoo compared with Roman, 113; Law of Nature, 103, 104; Roman Law, 111, 112, 117-123; mancipation, 120, 123; Praetorian testament, 123-125; Twelve Tables, 112, 119, 122; Roman family, agnatic and cognatic relationship, 86-89; duties and rights of father, 85; effects of Christianity, 92; family, the basis of State, 75, 76; kinship, 86, 88; modification of parental privileges, 84; origin of contract in, 99; origin of law of persons, 89; parental powers, 80-82, 88 Theology, and Jurisprudence, 208-210; moral, 204, 205 Theories, based on Roman doctrine, Bentham, 69; Blackstone, 67; differing from Roman Glossators, annotations of, 67; Grotius, 67; Jurisprudence, dissatisfaction with, 70; Locke, 67; Montesquieu, 68; patriarchal, 72-75 Universal succession, 106; in Roman Law, 106, 107 "Universatis Juris," 105 Village communities, Indian, 153, 154, 156, 158; Indian, compared with Roman gens, 155; Indian, Elphinstone, _History of India_, 155, 156; Russian 157 Women, ancient rules defeated by Natural Law, 90; Canon Law, 93; English Common Law, 93, 94; Roman family, 90, 91; gradual independence under Roman Law, 91, 92; Roman, perpetual tutelage of, 90; under Roman Law, 89, 90; subordination to husband in Middle Ages, 92; subordination of Roman to relations, 90 MADE AT THE TEMPLE PRESS LETCHWORTH IN GREAT BRITAIN End of Project Gutenberg's Ancient Law, by Sir Henry James Sumner Maine