[976] I 7 passim.
[977] If we are to hold that opus here refers only to work on the particular farm hired by the tenant, I presume it includes improvements, as in Digest XIX 2 § 24³.
[978] remissionem petere non audet.
[979] felicissimum fundum esse qui colonos indigenas haberet et tamquam in paterna possessione natos iam inde a cunabulis longa familiaritate retineret.
[980] urbanum colonum, qui per familiam mavult agrum quam per se colere.
[981] rusticos et eosdem adsiduos colonos.
[982] in his regionibus quae gravitate caeli solique sterilitate vastantur. Cf I 5 § 5, gravibus, and Varro I 17 § 2.
[983] By H. Blümner in Müller’s Handbuch. So also Gummerus in Klio 1906 pp 85-6.
[984] domini praesentia cariturum.
[985] Dig XXXIII 7 § 25¹, XIX 2 § 24, § 25³.