The _civis sine suffragio_ was known as a _municeps_, and the state, all of whose full members enjoyed this _status_, derived from its occupants the name of _municipium_. The name of this type of citizen—the “taker up of burdens”—aptly expresses his subjection to the chief duties (_munera_) of Roman citizenship, such as service in the Roman legions, forced labour in raising defences, the payment of the war-tax (_tributum_), and his exclusion from the usually corresponding rights of suffrage and of office;[1423] it emphasises the fact, strange to the early Roman mind, of public duties not balanced by public rights, but it contains no implication of the strangest characteristic of the _municeps_—one almost unknown in ancient legal systems—the possession of a personality in private which is not the result of a personality in public law. The _municeps_ possesses _commercium_ with all its consequences; he possesses _conubium_ with Rome; he is, from the point of view of private law, in every sense a citizen. This possession of citizenship carried with it as a necessary consequence his subjection to the praetor’s court. His home, the _municipium_, is therefore, equally with the community of full Roman citizens, a _praefectura_, and the rules of jurisdiction were the same in both classes of states. To the praefects nominated by the praetor were in course of time added others elected by the _comitia tributa_, and reckoned amongst the minor magistrates known as the _viginti-sex-viri_.[1424] These latter were the four praefects of Capua, Cumae, and the Campanian coast; but, in regard to the mode of election, there is no difference discernible between the judicial magistrates of the _municipia_ and those of the communities of Roman citizens. Elected praefects visited the _municipium_ of Capua and the Roman colony of Puteoli, while nominated praefects held their court in the colony of Saturnia and the municipal town of Anagnia.[1425]