Drawing upon Blacks 9th Ed description of Capitis deminutio:
Capitis deminutio, so to speak, wipes out the former individual (the man) and puts a new one in his place (the PERSON), and between the old and the new individual there is, legally speaking, nothing in common.
Printed copy · Anthology Volume 2, page 463 · cut by a page breakPrinted copy from The Tender For Law Anthology, Volume 2, page 463 (printed 14 June 2014). Added by this site; not part of the Facebook export. A page break in the printout cut off the end of this comment.