Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. Those also, for whom, on account of ill health, the Prætor is accustomed to appoint curators:

Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. This is the case because a man who compromises a crime is considered as having committed it.

Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. In actions arising out of contracts, even though they involve infamy, and those who lose them are branded with it, still, where a party makes an agreement he does not become infamous, and very properly, since a compromise in cases of this kind is not disgraceful, as it is in the preceding ones.

Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. Husbands are not compelled to mourn for their wives. 1There is no mourning for one betrothed.

Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. He who marries a woman under such circumstances, by the order of his father, even if he retains her after he is freed from the control of his father, is not branded with infamy.

Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. Where a master defended his slave in a noxal action, and afterwards liberated him and made him his heir, and judgment was rendered against the slave in the same action, he does not become infamous, for the reason that he was not condemned on his own account, since in the beginning he was not a party to the joinder of issue.

Paulus, On the Edict, Book V. Where a son under paternal control refuses his consent, a betrothal cannot take place, so far as he is concerned.

The Same, On the Edict, Book V. He is not an accomplice in a crime who does not prevent it from being committed when he is unable to do so.