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having sprung from his loins. And hence we must understand that if there be any persons who, however "truly included in the brotherhood by virtue of their blood-relationship, have, nevertheless, de facto withdrawn themselves from the Empire of its ruler, they are always in the beginnings of law, considered as lost to the family.
It is this patriarchal aggregate, the modern Family thus "cut down on one side, and extended on the other, which meets us on the threshold of primitive jurisprudence." * Ancient Law - Chapter 5.
9. It will be recollected that the archaic laws and customs thus described by the high authority of Sir Henry Maine, are still, as much the rule of social life and feeling in China, as they were, twenty-five centuries ago, both in China and at Rome.
10. The adoption of female children as daughters stands on a different footing from the adoption of male children as sons. But, on this point, I would refer to the full explanations given by M. Justice Russell.
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