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was sumptuary in that it limited the wealth available to women, who were presumed to expend it on useless luxury goods. The law only applied to inheritances by testament and did not affect the intestate law of succession of women, although later this was limited to inheriting to the third degree.
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relaxed the first provision as well, granting full inheritance rights to married women who were mothers of three children (if born free) or of four children (if a freedwoman).
51:. In addition, it prohibited extraordinary legacies in a will of a greater value than the inheritance of the ordinary heirs. This intention of this legislation according to 43:) from making a woman their heir. This particular limit was not arbitrary but was apparently the traditional property qualification for admission to the highest class in the 117: 122: 123:
Entry from William Smith, LL.D., William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, eds., "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" (1890) (from the Perseus Project)
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The Civil Law Including the Twelve Tables, the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpian, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments
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Entry from Harry Thurston Peck, "Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities" (1898) (from the Perseus Project)
67:-- which entailed the loss of some civil rights, or by the common Roman form of trust known as a 64: 39:
in that year, this law prohibited those who owned property valued at 100,000 asses (or perhaps
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was evaded by means of avoiding registration in the census -- as in the case of
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ancient Rome
Cato the Elder
tribune of the people
sesterces
Comitia Centuriata
Equestrian Order
Gellius
Publius Annius Asellus
fideicommissum
Lex Falcidia
Lex Papia Poppaea
Roman Law
List of Roman laws
The Roman Law Library, incl. Leges
Entry from Harry Thurston Peck, "Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities" (1898) (from the Perseus Project)
Entry from William Smith, LL.D., William Wayte, G. E. Marindin, eds., "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" (1890) (from the Perseus Project)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law
561
ISBN
978-0-87169-432-4
The Civil Law Including the Twelve Tables, the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpian, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments
ISBN
978-1-58477-130-2
Categories
Roman law
169 BC

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