ABSTRACT
State and Family have become the “foundations of society”, the village, parish, and race-communities consolidate and expand into the National State; and political life is so active and conspicuous that the new stage of human culture takes its name therefrom, and is known as Civilization. The last echoes of the Kinship group resound into the historic times of classical antiquity. And the great writers of Antiquity have made people fully acquainted with the transition from Early to Full Familial institutions. The Roman joint family was very similar in structure and customs. In historic times the Roman Joint Family attained a monstrous development. Men regard marriage as a device for securing heirs of unquestionable legitimacy for their goods and wealth. The heredium was regarded as necessary for the maintenance of each family, and till the end of the Roman Republic it was considered disgraceful to sell it.
