(M153) § 170. If a man has had children borne to him by his wife, and also by a maid, if the father in his lifetime has said, “My sons,” to the children whom his maid bore him, and has reckoned them with the sons of his wife; then after the father has gone to his fate, the children of the wife and of the maid shall share equally. The children of the wife shall apportion the shares and make their own selections. § 171. And if the father, in his lifetime, has not said, “My sons,” to the children whom the maid bore him, after the father has gone to his fate, the children of the maid shall not share with the children of the wife in the goods of their father’s house. The maid and her children, however, shall obtain their freedom. The children of the wife have no claim for service on the children of the maid. (M154) The wife shall take her marriage-portion, and any gift that her husband has given her and for which he has written a deed of gift and she shall dwell in her husband’s house; as long as she lives, she shall enjoy it, she shall not sell it. After her death it is indeed her children’s. § 172. If her husband has not given her a gift, her marriage-portion shall be given her in full, and, from the goods of her husband’s estate, she shall take a share equal to that of one son. (M155) If her children have persecuted her in order to have her leave the house, and the judge has inquired into her past, and laid the blame on the children, that woman shall not leave her husband’s house. If that woman has determined to leave, she shall relinquish to her children the gift her husband gave her, she shall take the marriage-portion of her father’s estate, and the husband of her choice may marry her. (M156) § 173. If that woman, where she has gone, has borne children to her later husband, after that woman has died, the children of both marriages shall share her marriage-portion. § 174. If she has not borne children to her later husband, the children of her first husband shall take her marriage-portion. (M157) § 175. If either a slave of a patrician, or of a plebeian, has married the daughter of a free man, and she has borne children, the owner of the slave shall have no claim for service on the children of a free woman. And if a slave, either of a patrician or of a plebeian, has married a free woman and when he married her she entered the slave’s house with a marriage-portion from her father’s estate, be he slave of a patrician or of a plebeian, and from the time that they started to keep house, they have acquired property; after the slave, whether of a patrician or of a plebeian, has gone to his fate, the free woman shall take her marriage-portion, and whatever her husband and she acquired, since they started house-keeping. She shall divide it into two portions. The master of the slave shall take one half, the other half the free woman shall take for her children.