[Footnote 83: See, in the statutes of Rome, the senator and
three judges, (l. i. c. 3 - 14,) the conservators, (l. i. c.
15, 16, 17, l. iii. c. 4,) the caporioni (l. i. c. 18, l.
iii. c. 8,) the secret council, (l. iii. c. 2,) the common
council, (l. iii. c. 3.) The title of feuds, defiances, acts
of violence, &c., is spread through many a chapter (c. 14 -
40) of the second book.]