peculium castrense
Roman law
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compared with patria potestas
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…they earned as soldiers (peculium castrense). By Justinian’s day (527–565), the rules of peculium castrense were extended to many sorts of professional earnings; and in other acquisitions, such as property inherited from the mother, the father’s rights were reduced to a life interest.
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