60. See the Code of Justinian, l/. viii. tit. lii. leg. 2/.
Unusquisque sobolem suam nutriat. Quod si exponendam
putaverit animadversioni quae constituta est subjacebit. For
the present I shall not interfere in the dispute between
Noodt and Binkershoek, how far or how long this unnatural
practice had been condemned or abolished by law, philosophy,
and the more civilised state of society.