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Show Ancient Property Laws Protected the Weaker the law provided that a husband could not sell or mortgage his wife's property, prop-erty, nor could a son dispose of his mother's property. If a mother dies, says this ancient statute on property, and leaves children, the father has power over her property, but be cannot can-not sell tt or mortgage It unless the children consent when they come of age. Moreover, If the father marries another woman after the flrst wife's death, the children of the flrst wife shall bave power over their mother's property, renames are provided for tbe violation of any of these provisions. pro-visions. I Tbe oldest Greek statate now extant, ex-tant, governing the disposition of "real" property, cdmes from the Island Is-land of Crete. This Is the law of tbe city of Oortyna. dating from perhaps a G 400. This Inscription, the largest larg-est existing fragment of any Greek law, came to light lesa than fifty years ago; for the stones on which It was chiseled had been burled for 2.000 years or more and Its discovery made a sensation in the learned world. It was about thirty feet long tn Its original orig-inal form ; the broken pieces are now scattered In several museums. These laws show that more than 2,000 years ago women In this Creteao city could own property. Moreover, |