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Rh FRANCE. France,  effects of the alliance between the lawyers and the kings, on the fortunes of, 80, 81.

difference between the Pays du Droit Coutumier and the Pays du Droit Écrit, 84.

pre-eminence given in France to Natural Law, 85.

Rousseau, 87.

the Revolution, 89.

Franks, the, referred to, 104.

Roman institution of the Patria Potestas not known to the, 143.

Freewill and Necessity, question of, unknown to the Greeks, 304.

Furtum, or Theft, of the Roman Law, 370.

Gaius referred to, 52.

his description of the institution of the Patria Potestas, 133.

his information respecting the Perpetual Tutelage of Women, 153.

on the duplication of proprietary right, referred to, 295.

Galatæ, the Patria Poteslls of the, 136.

Gens, or House, of the Romans compared with the Village Community of India, 264.

Gentiles, Roman, their rights in cases of Intestate Succession, 221.

German law of Succession, 280.

Germans, Wills of the ancient, 196, 198.

penal laws of the, 367.

Patria Potestas of, 143.

primitive property of, 198.

the ancient law of allodial property, 228.

"Germany" of Tacitus, its value, 120.

suspicions as to its fidelity, 121.

allodial property of, 281.

Greece, aristocracies of, 10.

Greek theory of a Law of Nature, 52, 53.

Greeks, equality of laws on which they prided themselves, 58.

their tendency to confound law and fact, 75.

their notion of an inherited curse, 127.

assistance afforded by, in the formation of the Roman codes, 15.

limited Patria Potestas of the, 136, 137.

metaphysics of the, 300.

Greeks,  their want of capacity for producing a philosophy of law, 354.

Grote, Mr., his "History of Greece," referred to, 5, 9.

Grotius, Hugo, and his successors on International law, 96.

his doctrines, 100.

success of his treatise "De Jure Belli et Pacis," 111.

his theory of a Natural State and of a system of principles congenial to it, 114.

his moral philosophy and that of his school, 350.

comparison of his system with that of the Casuists, 351.

Guardianship, Perpetual, of Women, under the Roman law, 153.

amongst the Hindoos, 153.

amongst the Scandinavians, 153.

Hæreditas, or Inheritance, definition, 181.

Hæres or Heir, his rights and duties, 181, 190, 227.

Half-blood relationship, 151.

the rule according to the customs of Normandy, 151.

Haus-Gesetze of Germany, 232.

Heirs, rights of, under the Roman Law, 131, 190, 227.

Highland chieftainship hereditary, 234.

form of Primogeniture, 240.

Hindoo laws of Menu, 6, 17, 18.

Customary Law, 7.

law of Succession, 280.

difference between Inheritances and Acquisitions, 281.

Perpetual Tutelage of Women amongst the, 153.

right amongst the, to inherit a dead man's property, 191.

the Hindoo sacra, 192.

the Suttee, 193.

the place of Wills amongst the Hindoos occupied by Adoptions, 193.

rights of the first-born son amongst the, 228.

primogeniture of the Hindoos in public office or political power, but not in property, 233.

Hindoos, form of Ownership of Property amongst the, — the Village Community, 260.