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Show makwaob nr AjrciBirf sons. When Borne became the master state of the Mediterranean world, and especially durlnc the last century of the republic, woman, aside from a fn slight limitations limita-tions of form rather than of substance, had already acquired lersl snd eoonomto . Independence, the enndttien necessary for social and moral equity. Ae to mar; rlsce. the affianced pair could at that time choose between two different local family realmee; marrlsee with manua, the older form. In which all the ceods ef the wife peaeed to the ownership ef the husband, so that she could no fcenger possess anything In her own name; or marrtssje without menus, in wnien eniy the dower became the property of the husband, and the wife remained mistress or sll her other belongings and all that she mlcht acquire. . Except tn some cases, and for special reasons, m sll the families of the aristocracy, aris-tocracy, by common consent, nWTtacea, during the last centurlea of the republic, were contracted tn the later farm; ao that at that time married women directly and openly had gained economic tade pea-dsn pea-dsn oe. Century. |