Ingenuus

I. I.

In the eivil law. One who is his birth; one who is born in marriage of or both freed, or of parents, one free, the born of a free mother.

In old European law. A freeman; a yeoman.

In Roman law. A person who, immediately that he was born, was a free person. He was opposed to libertinus, or libertus, who, having been born a slave, was afterwards manumitted or made free. It is not the same as the English law term "generosus," which denoted a person not merely free, but of good family. There were no distinctions among ingenui; but among libertini there were (prior to Justinian's abolition of the distinctions) three varieties, namely: Those of the highest rank, called "Cives Romani;" those of the second rank, called "Latini Juniani;" and those of the lowest rank, called "Dediticii." Brown.

civ. law, were those freemen who were born free. They were a class of freemen, distinguished from those who, born slaves, had afterwards legally. obtained their freedom; the latter were called at various periods, sometimes liberté, sometimes liberttns. An unjust or illegal servitude did not prevent a man from being tngenuus. INGRATITUDE is the forgetfulness of a kindness or benefit. In the civil law, mgratitude on the part of a legatee, was sufficient to defeat a legacy in his favour. There isno