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- ↑ Judith Evans Grubbs (2002). Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood. Routledge. p. 22. ISBN 0-415-15240-2.
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- ↑ Goran Lind (23 July 2008). Common Law Marriage : A Legal Institution for Cohabitation: A Legal Institution for Cohabitation. Oxford University Press, USA. pp. 38–. ISBN 978-0-19-971053-9.
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- ↑ Alan Watson (1992). The State, Law, and Religion: Pagan Rome. University of Georgia Press. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-0-8203-1387-0.