Paulus, iii, 4a, 1.

[2]

Ulpian, Tit., xx, 16. Gaius, ii, 112.

[3]

Male relatives on the father's side—agnati—were guardians in such cases; these failing, the judge of the supreme court (praetor) assigned one. See Ulpian, Tit., xi, 3, 4, and 24. Gaius, i, 185, and iii, 10. Libertae (freedwomen) took as guardians their former masters.

[4]

Ulpian, Tit., xi, 27.