[18] Agnates (_agnati_) are relatives by blood or through adoption on male side only; cognates (_cognati_) are blood-relatives on either male or female side. The family of the _ius civile_ is the agnatic family; the family of the _ius gentium_ is the cognatic family. [19] Beside a guardian (_tutor_) for a child of certain age (sixth statute of this Table; cf. p. 7, n. 21) there is provided also a guardian (_custos_, later _curator_) for a lunatic and for a prodigal (seventh statute of this Table). [20] Clansmen (_gentiles_) are persons all belonging to the same clan (_gens_) as the deceased and of course include agnates, when these exist. [21] Boys between the ages of 7 and 15, girls between the ages of 7 and 13, women neither under paternal power (_patria potestas_) nor under marital control (_in manu mariti_). [22] Another version of this provision reads thus: "Debts bequeathed by inheritance shall be divided by automatic liability (_ipso iure_) proportionally [among the heirs], after the details shall have been investigated." [23] That is, the judicial division of an estate by a _iudex_ among the disagreeing coheirs. [24] That is, double the proportionate part of the price or of the things transferred. [25] This statute is set in Table I by some scholars. [26] This probably means that a foreigner resident in Roman territory never can obtain rights over any property simply by long possession (_usu-capio_) thereof; but the meaning of _auctoritas_ in this clause is disputed. At any rate _usucapio_ is peculiar to Roman citizens. This provision sometimes is placed in Table III by scholars. [27] This is an exclusively patrician type of wedding, wherein is made a mutual offering of bread in the presence of a priest and ten witnesses. [28] This type of wedlock, used originally by plebeians, is a fictitious sale, by which a woman is freed from either _patria potestas_ or _tutela_. It comes perhaps from the primitive custom of bride-purchase. [29] This method explains how a wife can remain married to a husband without remaining in his _manus_ (rights of possession). If the _usus_ be interrupted, the time of the _usus_ must begin afresh, because the previous possession (_usus_) is considered as cancelled. [30] Apparently _tignum_, as "timber" in English covers material for construction, includes every kind of material used in buildings and in vine-yards. [31] This strip is reserved as a path between any two estates belonging to different owners. Both owners can walk on the whole space, but neither owner can claim possession of the strip through continued usage.