Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 5.10.62

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[62] which latter he calls form, from definition and includes them under relation. For example, if a person to whom another man has left all his silver should claim all his silver money as well, he would base his claim upon genus; on the other hand if when a legacy has been left to a married woman holding the position of materfamilias, it should be maintained that the legacy is not due to a woman who never came into the power of her husband, the argument is based on species, since there are two kinds of marriage. ¹ Cicero ²

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[62] Cicero genus et speciem, quam eandem formam vocat, a finitione deducit et iis, quae ad aliquid sunt, subiicit: ut, si is, cui argentum omne legatum est, petat signatum quoque, utatur genere; at si quis, cum legatum sit ei, quae viro mater familias esset, neget deberi ei, quae in manum non convenerit, specie; quoniam duae formae sint matrimoniorum.

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1. There was the formal marriage per coemptionem, bringing the woman under the power ( in manum )of her husband and giving her the title of materfamilias, and the informal marriage based on cohabitation without involving the wife's coming in manum mariti.

2. Cic. Top.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 5.10.62

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