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E . S a c h e r s , Patria potestas (repr. f r o m RE X X I I (1), 1046—1175). I n t h i s excellent presentation of t h e patria potestas the au-t h o r makes greaau-t use of au-t h e p a p y r i cf. p p . : 1 0 5 1 — o n au-t h e con-ception of patria potestas in t h e p a p y r i ; 1059 — on t h e j o i n t pro-p e r t y of t h e f a m i l y m e m b e r s ; 1067 — on sources of t h e pro-p.pro-p.; 1069—70 — on t h e album professionis liberorum natorum; 1071 — on tollere et suscipere liberos; 1074 — on t h e acquisition of t h e p.p.; 1076 — on iniustum matrimonium; 1090—1094 — on t h e exposure of children; 1096 — on t h e right to t h e sale of a child; 1091 — on t h e r i g h t t o t h e pledging of a child; 1096 — on t h e r i g h t t o giving a w a y a child in service; 1102 — on t h e right of t h e pater familias to decide over t h e engagement of a d a u g h t e r a n d t o her giving in m a r r i a g e ; 1111 — on the right to dissolve t h e engagement a n d t h e marriage of d a u g h t e r ; 1114 — on t h e obligation t o t h e main-t e n a n c e of a child; 1130 — on main-t h e educamain-tion and main-t h e choice of pro-fession of a child; 1135 — on p r o p e r t y relation between f a t h e r and child; 1138 — on m a t r i a r c h a t e ; 1174—5 — on t h e abdicatio, άποκήρυξις.
F r a n c a L a R o s a , Ipeculii speciali in diritto romano, Milano 1953. T h e a u t h o r of t h i s dissertation makes also use of t h e p a p y r i (cf. p. 12, 15 see E . S e i d l , SDHI X X I , 468): we m u s t however complain t h a t t h e elaboration is n o t p e n e t r a t e d t o t h e zones su-sceptible b y a more exacting work of synthesis.
A. C a l d e r i n i , Άπάτορες (Aegyptus X X X I I I (2) [1953] 358—369). T h e a u t h o r asserts t h a t although t h e R o m a n rules introduced clear, f u n d a m e n t a l and often insuperable legal distinction between filii a n d spurii of t h e civil population as well as of military
cir-cles, nevertheless in t h e practice this distinction was easily extenu-a t e d or simply extenu-annihilextenu-ated b y t h e reextenu-alistic i n t e p r e t extenu-a t i o n extenu-applied w i t h t h e consent of t h e population w h a t led gradually to t h e de-s u e t u d e of t h e rulede-s themde-selvede-s.
The lack of such a distinction, according to Diodor, in t h e Pto-lemaic E g y p t , contributed to such a development and t o t h e pre-servation of a practice which was rooted in the spirit of t h e indi-genous p o p u l a t i o n .
