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The Roman Collegia.
" Each college could hold property . " The sodales called and regarded themselves as fratres . * For amongst them existed the dear bond of a relationship which , though artificial , was that close alliance which a common sentiment can make , This it was which , in defiance of blood , they called ' cara cognatio . '
This bond of connection the civil law ratified and extended ; for allowing the assumption of kinship , it imposed on sodales another duty in addition to those already undertaken , by compelling any one of them to accept the guardianship of the child of a deceased colleague . "f
A careful study of Heineccius , the Digest , and Facciolati , leads me to the conclusion that Mr . Coote is perfectly right in many particulars , though I venture to think he has been a little too hasty in others . It is undoubtedly the fact that these Collegia had a " Jus
Fraternitatis , " and were called , or at any rate considered " Fratres . " Indeed as it is pointed out in the " Corpus , " that the members of the College were called Sodales , because they " ejusdem Collegii sunt , " the same bodv which the Greeks called " Etairia . " The Roman law seems to have been translated from the law of Solon , in
which they were called " Phratores " ( Fratres ) , or Sodales , and their decisions and laws were to stand good when made unless they contravened the public laws .
The Collegia if " Illicita , ' that is opposed to the decrees and Constitutions and Senatus Consultus , were at once to be dissolved ; but they were permitted , when so dissolved , to divide any monies they
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Roman Collegia.
" Each college could hold property . " The sodales called and regarded themselves as fratres . * For amongst them existed the dear bond of a relationship which , though artificial , was that close alliance which a common sentiment can make , This it was which , in defiance of blood , they called ' cara cognatio . '
This bond of connection the civil law ratified and extended ; for allowing the assumption of kinship , it imposed on sodales another duty in addition to those already undertaken , by compelling any one of them to accept the guardianship of the child of a deceased colleague . "f
A careful study of Heineccius , the Digest , and Facciolati , leads me to the conclusion that Mr . Coote is perfectly right in many particulars , though I venture to think he has been a little too hasty in others . It is undoubtedly the fact that these Collegia had a " Jus
Fraternitatis , " and were called , or at any rate considered " Fratres . " Indeed as it is pointed out in the " Corpus , " that the members of the College were called Sodales , because they " ejusdem Collegii sunt , " the same bodv which the Greeks called " Etairia . " The Roman law seems to have been translated from the law of Solon , in
which they were called " Phratores " ( Fratres ) , or Sodales , and their decisions and laws were to stand good when made unless they contravened the public laws .
The Collegia if " Illicita , ' that is opposed to the decrees and Constitutions and Senatus Consultus , were at once to be dissolved ; but they were permitted , when so dissolved , to divide any monies they