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Excerpt from The Institutes of Gaius (Extracts), Vol. 45: The Digest; De Verborum Obligationibus The jurisdiction of the husband over the wife in some cases amounted to manus it was somewhat analogous to the potestas, and included the right to all the woman's property and placed her in a similar position to a daughter under the potestas of a father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.