Digestorum libri
Ex libro XXVI
Marcellus, Digest, Book XXVI. For when a man desires to arrogate a ward, if he shows a good reason for doing so in other respects, he can only be heard if he gives a bond to a public slave binding himself, “that he will restore any of the property of his ward that may come into his possession to those persons who would have been entitled to said property, if the arrogated party had remained in his former condition”.
Marcellus, Digest, Book XXVI. It is understood that disgrace attaches to those women who live unchastely, and earn money by prostitution, even if they do not do so openly. 1If a woman should live in concubinage with someone besides her patron, I say that she does not possess the virtue of the mother of a family.
The Same, Digest, Book XXVI. Where a husband bequeaths a dowry of his wife to someone in order that it may be returned to her, it must be said that the Falcidian Law does not apply; and it is clear that in very many instances arrangements are made to leave out the intermediate party for the benefit of the person entitled to the legacy.