to evade this my enactment, I shall visit his offence with severe
punishment.'

TITLE IX
OF PATERNAL POWER

Our children whom we have begotten in lawful wedlock are in
our power. 1 Wedlock or matrimony is the union of male and
female, involving the habitual intercourse of daily life. 2 The
power which we have over our children is peculiar to Roman
citizens, and is found in no other nation. 3 The offspring then
of you and your wife is in your power, and so too is that of
your son and his wife, that is to say, your grandson and grand-
daughter, and so on. But the offspring of your daughter is not
in your power, but in that of its own father.

TITLE X
OF MARRIAGE

Roman citizens are joined together in lawful wedlock when they
are united according to law, the man having reached years of
puberty, and the woman being of a marriageable age, whether
they be independent or dependent: provided that, in the latter
case, they must have the consent of the parents in whose power
they respectively are, the necessity of which, and even of its
being given before the marriage takes place, is recognised no
less by natural reason than by law. Hence the question has arisen,
can the daughter or son of a lunatic lawfully contract marriage?
and as the doubt still remained with regard to the son, we
decided that, like the daughter, the son of a lunatic might marry