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Objects of civil order

Extent of the Roman imperium

Functions of prætors and consuls

The plebeians and the prætorship

The insignia and business of the prætors

Numbers of the prætors

The prætors and private judges

Prætorial formula

Proceedings in iudicio

Criminal law

Law and religion

The appeal to the people

Practical restrictions on appeal .

Political offences

Penal

powers

of the state.

Defects of popular jurisdiction

Gradual limitation of popular jurisdiction.

Quæstiones perpetuce.

Abuse of judicial functions

Private prosecutors

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Panishments

The penalty of exile

Fines

Practical abolition of capital punishment

Frustration of justice

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Modern theories of revenue and expenditure

Roman notions of finance.

Public works

Management of the army ·

Disposal of booty taken in war

War indemnities

Conquered lands

Public ard private lands

Effects of conquest

Application of fines.

Expenditure on the public games

The farming of the revenue

Waste of public revenues and resources

The control of the revenue

Financial duties of the censors .

Tbe Publicani .

Abolition of the tributum

Frumentarian laws .

Items of public expenditure

Censorial contracts for public works .

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Relation of parts in an organized whole

Extra-legal phases of national life

Earliest conditions of Roman society

Occupation of conquered lands .

Rental of land

Agriculture and commerce

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Influx of the peasantry into the towns

217

Multiplication of slaves

218

Slavery and capital

218

Slaves from Greek lands

219

Sources of Roman wealth

220

Wealth of the highest Roman families

221

Increase of luxury

222

Somptuary laws

223

Inefficiency of the luxury laws

224

Influence of Greece on the Romans .

226

Forms of marriage

226

Position of married women in marriage without manus 227

The Voconian law

228

Greek and Roman women

229

Antiquity of the right of divorce

229

Connexion of divorce with the patria potestas

230

State of feeling with regard to divorce

230

Morality of Roman women

231

Difficulties in the story respecting Hostilia

233

Alleged frequency of poisoning

234

The Roman family

235

Corrupting effects of slavery

236

Unnatural vices

236

Public morality

237

Law of adultery

238

The Roman matron

238

Wives and daughters

239

Slaves and freemen

239

Condition of the slaves

240

Influence of religion and law

241

The censorial control of morals

241

Objects aimed at by the censors

242

Censorial classification of citizens

242

Limits of censorial duty

243

Practical work of the censors

245

Restraint of extravagance

245

Arbitrary action of the censors

246

Qualifications of the censors

247

Transitory nature of the censorial decrees

249

Later notions of the censorship

250

Roman virtaes and vices

250

General results of luxury and the growth of large estates. 251

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