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Rh SUCCESSION. Succession, formula of old Roman investiture referred to, 190.

Suttee of the Hindoos, 193.

Sylla, L. Cornelius, his improvements in the Roman law, 41, 42.

Tables, the Twelve Decemviral, 1, 2, 14, 33.

collections of opinions interpretative of the, 33.

their legalisation of Plebeian Wills, 202.

Law of the Twelve Tables respecting Testamentary Dispositions, 216.

Tablets, laws engraven on, 14.

Tacitus, value of his "Germany" as a record of primitive history, 120.

suspicions as to its fidelity, 121.

Tarquins, change in the administration of the law after the expulsion of the, 61, 62.

Tenancy, Roman system of, 299.

Testaments. See Succession, Testamentary.

Theft, ancient Roman law of, 307, 378, 379.

modern breaches of trust, 307.

Themis and Themistes of the Greek Homeric poems, 4, 5, 125.

Theology, connection between it and Roman law, 355.

Thirty Years' War, influence of the horrors of the, on the success of the treatise "De Jure Belli et Pacis" of Grotius, 111.

Torts, law of, 370.

Tradition of property amongst the Romans, 278.

practical effect of a Mancipation given to a Tradition, 278.

Transfer of property, ancient modes of, 276.

Troglodytes, the, 311.

Turkey, rule of succession to the throne of, 242.

Ulpian, his attempt to distinguish between the Jus Naturale and the Jus Gentium, 52.

Universitas juris, in what it consists, 178.

Usucapion, principle of Roman law known as, 212.

history of, 284.

Usus, or lower form of civil marriage of the ancient Romans, 154.

Vandals, the, referred to, 104.

Venetians, their lapse from tribe sovereignty to territorial sovereignty, 109.

Village Communities of India, 260, 262, et seq.

Visigoths, the, referred to, 104.

Voltaire, referred to, 87.

Warfare, ancient forms of, 247.

Wehrgeld, the, of Germany, 281.

Whewell, Dr., on original Social Compact, quoted, 347.

his view of Moral Philosophy, 348.

Widow's share of her husband's estate, 224.

the reipus, or fine leviable on the remarriage of a widow in Germany, 281.

Wills, influence of the Sacra Gentilicia on the law of, 6, 7.

See Succession, Testamentary.

Women, laws respecting the status of 152.

Roman law of the Perpetual Tutelage of, 153.

amongst the Hindoos, 158.

and amongst the Scandinavians, 155.

Guardianship of Women under the Roman law, 153.

tutelage of, amongst the Hindoos, 153.

tutelage of, amongst the Scandinavians, 153.

ancient Roman Marriage, 154.

later Roman marriage, 155.

special Proprietorship created by the Court of Chancery for, 295.

Zeus, not a lawmaker, but a judge, 4, 5.