4 CONTENTS. ClIAPTEB PAGE IV. Adoption and Emancipation 08 V. Kinship. Wliat the Romans called Agnation. . . 71 VI. The Riglit of Property 76 VII. The Right of Succession 03 1. Nature and Principle of the Right of Succes- sion among the Ancients 03 2. The Son, not the Daughter, inherits 05 8. Collateral Succession 100 4. Effects of Adoption and Emancipation. . . . 103 5. Wills were not known originally 104 6. The Right of Primogeniture 107 VIII. Authority in the Family Ill 1. Principle and Nature of Paternal Power among the Ancients Ill 2. Enumeration of the Rights composing tho Pa- ternal Power 117 IX. Morals of the Ancient Family 12S X. The Gens at Rome and in Greece 131 1. What we learn of the Gens from Ancient Doc- uments 134 2. An Examination of the Opinions that have been offered to explain the Roman Gens. . 13S 3. The Gens was nothing but the Family still holding to its primitive Organization and its Unity 141 4. The Family (Gens) was at first tho only Form of Society Lii.
