ABSTRACT
THE characteristics of the family patrimony were not seriously changed under the Lower Empire except in two ways: (i.) by the constitution, within limits and under conditions which have already been described, of special patrimonies for the filiifamilias or of important personal rights over the property acquired by them, which was in like measure withdrawn from the common patrimony; (ii.) by the charges and the restrictions on freedom of disposal with which the social organization burdened the property of curiales, of corporati or collegiati, and of coloni. 1
