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Litterarum secreta==litteras secretas, secret correspondence between the sexes, for this limitation is obvious from the connexion. Praesens. Immediate. Maritis permissa, sc. as a domestic crime, cf. Caes. B.G. 6, 19: Viri in uxores, sicut in liberos, vitae necisque habent potestatem. Cf. Beck. Gall., Exc. 1. Sc. 1. Accisis crinibus, as a special mark of disgrace, cf. 1 Cor. 11, 6.
The Patria Potestas of the Romans, which is necessarily our type of the primeval paternal authority, is equally difficult to understand as an institution of civilised life, whether we consider its incidence on the person or its effects on property. It is to be regretted that a chasm which exists in its history cannot be more completely filled. So far as regards the person, the parent, when our information commences, has over his children the jus vitæ necisque, the power of life and death, and
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