In Roman law. This was the Benatus-consuUwn Mace-donianum, a decree of tbe Roman senate, first given under Claudius, and renewed un-der Vespasian, by whlch it was declared that no action should be maintained to recover a loan of money made to a child who was un-der the patria potestas. It was lntended to strike at the practice of usurers in making
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
