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The law of ancient jurisprudence established by Solon, prescribing the right of allocation and the amount of a dowry according to the dignity of the families, was as follows:

If any girl of the lowest order who is an heiress does not wish to have the man who belongs to her by closeness of kin, with a dowry given, the allocation is: for a patrician, five hundred drachmas; for a knight, three hundred; for a half-knight, one hundred and fifty, besides those things which she herself possesses. But if there are many in one family, let each contribute in proportion. If there are many women, it is not necessary for a kinsman to allocate more than one, but let the nearest kinsman either allocate himself or marry her himself. If the closest by birth neither allocates her nor marries her, the Praetor shall compel him to either allocate or marry. If the Praetor does not compel him, he shall owe one thousand drachmas sacred to Juno.
Let anyone who has refused be summoned by anyone to the Praetor.

THESIS I.

It is highly pleasing, that theoretical theorem a technical/theoretical rule of Pomponius to Sabinus: IT IS IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST THAT DOWRIES BE PRESERVED FOR WOMEN.

II.
Since, both in order to remarry, and to support, adorn, and

establish more comfortably the children born of a previous marriage after the wife has died, the husband is able.