English law is very different from the
Roman in this respect and would decide in favor of the tenant and against
the state. It is fairly possible that this uncertainty of tenure tended to
render the government more stable and less liable to sudden revolutionary
movements, thus having the same effect upon the Roman government which
funded debts have upon the nations of to-day.
[Footnote 1: Long, _Decline of the Roman Rep_., I, ch. 11.]
[Footnote 2: Muirhead, _Roman Law_, 92.]
[Footnote 3: Ortolan, _Histoire de la legislation Romaine_, p. 21.]
[Footnote 4: Mommsen, I, 131; Arnold, I, 157.]
[Footnote 5: Dionysius, IV, 11, Livy.]
[Footnote 6: Ihne, I, 175.]
[Footnote 7: Ihne, I, 175.]
[Footnote 8: Livy, Bk. I, c. 38, with note by Drachenborch; Livy, Bk. VII,
c. 31.]
[Footnote 9: Siculus Flaccus, _De Conditione Agrorum_, 2, 3: "Ut vero
Romani omnium gentium potiti sunt, agros alios ex hoste captos in victorem
populum partiti sunt, alios verro agros vendiderunt, ut Sabinorum ager qui
dicitur quaestorius."]
[Footnote 10: Cicero, in Verrem, II, Bk. 3, Sec. 6.]
[Footnote 11: Giraud, _Droit de propriete chez les romains_, 160.
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