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Show Old Families Compelled to Restore Valuable Property Rights to Princess. ROME, March 10. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) War memories of the middle ages have been renewed among the princely houses of Italy by the recent decision of the Roman civil courts condemning the old and famous families of Corislni and Barberini to restore to the young daughter of the Prince of Sclarra property rights, involving a large money income, vested in the ancient order of the Knights of Malta. Except among noble or Catholic families the very existence of tho niil-itant niil-itant religious order of the Knights of Malta had been forgotten here, yet tho decision of the court has shown that large properties still are in the possession posses-sion of this order founded many centuries cen-turies ago at Jerusalem and which successively controlled the islands of Rhodes and Malta until driven out by Napoleon. Tho lawsuit was brought by Prince Maffeo Sclarra in the interest of his daughter. Formerly himself one of the richest princes of Rome, he had become be-come so impoverished that he undertook under-took several years ago tho selling of automobile insurance in order to earn a living. In his misfortune ho remembered remem-bered that his family had once been prominent In the Knights of Malta. Then he discovered that owing to tho great wbalth of his own father and grandfather they had probably neglected neg-lected a handsome Income of $8000 or 10,000 a year due as heirs of a Knights of Malta title, an income which for the past 100 years had been enjoyed by his relatives of the princely prince-ly houses of Corslni and Barberini. Prince Sclarra decided to sue for the accrued Income. After two years the court has now decided that the Princes of Barberini and Corslni shall make joint restitution restitu-tion from the year 1819 until 1853, then that the Prince Corslni shall make full restitution from 1853 until 1880, and tho Barberlnis from 1880 until the present time. Prince Sclarra and his wife and daughter have once more taken their place among the proud and exclusivo families of old Rome. , |