The Voconian Law
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Voconian law · the Voconian law
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On Moral Ends
Roman law limiting inheritance by women, invoked by Sextilius as legal cover for denying the testator's true wishes.
He added, too, that, having sworn to uphold the Voconian law, he did not dare to act against it, unless his friends thought otherwise.
On the Commonwealth
Roman law restricting women's capacity to inherit, cited as beneficial to men but unjust toward women.
so that this our interpreter of the law, Manilius, now says that the rights concerning the bequests and inheritances of women are other than he used, as a young man, to declare them, before the Voconian law was passed;