By the word annus we are to understand a certain time of the year, when the judges sat to try causes.

43. Totius populi: i. e. when the courts were open to the people

at large.

51. Testandi... jus: by the laws of Rome, a son, during the life of his father, could not dispose of his property by will. But the soldier, by his military oath, became free and had the right of giving, as he pleased, whatever he had acquired in the service of his country.