[813] Nov. cxvii, 1; cf. cxxxiv, 11.
[814] Generally see Muirhead's Private Law of Rome (by Gould), Edin., 1899, pp. 163, 270 et seq., and the reconstruction of the XII Tab. thereto appended; also Gaius, iii, 18, etc.
[815] Livy, vi, 42; vii, 1, etc.
[816] Pand., I, i, 7.
[817] The way in which the Prætor gave relief to those hard pressed by the letter of the law, is expressed very clearly throughout the Institutes, especially in iii, 1, 2, 9, etc.
[818] Eutropius, viii, 9; Cod. I, xvii, Tanta (Δέδωκεν), etc.
[819] By the XII Tab., as J. points out, males and females, apart from agnation, had equal rights in successions; Cod., VI, lviii, 14.
[820] Nov. cxviii; cxxvii; cf. Instit., i, 11; iii, 1.
[821] The Lex Falcidia, concerning which there is much matter in Code, Pand., and Nov., etc.; cf. Gaius, ii, 226.
[822] Nov. cxv. Other causes for disinheriting were a son going on the stage, or a daughter under twenty-five refusing to marry a certain person, etc.