SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION OF ROME AND ITS POPULATION DOWN TO THE TIME OF SERVIUS TULLIUS.
Section 1.—Genesis of the Roman State.
The union of the Latin, Sabine, and, to a small extent, Etruscan bands that, as conquerors or conquered, old settlers or new immigrants, together constituted the first elements of the Roman people, did not necessarily involve comtemporaneous adoption of identical institutions or identical notions of law. Though descended from the same Indo-European stock, and inheriting the same primitive ideas about religion and government, yet those ideas must have been more or less modified in the course of centuries of separate and independent development.[2] It is said that the
- ↑ See especially Puchta, Cursus der Institutionem d. Röm. Rechts (1st ed., Leipsic, 1841), 8th ed. by Krüger, Leipsic, 1875, vol. i. §§ 36-50; Clark, Early Roman Law: Regal Period, London, 1872; Genz, Das Patricische Rom, Berlin, 1878; Kuntze, Cursus der Institutionem, 2d ed., Leipsic, 1879, §§ 47-68; Bernhöft, Staat und Recht der Röm. Königszeit im Verhöltniss zu verwandten Rechten, Stuttgart, 1832.
- ↑ The Aryan origin of several of the most important religious notions and public and private institutions of early Rome, and their resemblance to corresponding ones in India and Greece, have been shown by Fustel de Coulanges, La Cité Antique (1st ed., Paris, 1857), 7th ed., 1879; Sir H. S. Maine, Ancient Law (1st ed., London, 1862), 9th ed., 1883; Bernhöft, as above; Leist, Graeco-Italische Rechtsgeschichte, Jena, 1884.
