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444 position: both became the property of the receiver, but with an obligation of return; if the one was properly called why should not the other be  The final, and unfortunately corrupt, sentence in the passage of Varro refers to the case of the debtor who, in the earlier law, made himself  and has little or no connection with what precedes it. (See on this subject the observations of Prof. Nettleship in the Journal of Philology, vol. xii. (1883), p. 198 sq.)

In the early