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considered a member of this guy's household,
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as his client and his freedman.
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And they owed certain duties to him.
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For example, they
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might--paterfamilias would often put a slave up in
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business, give a slave enough money to run a business.
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And the slave could keep a lot of the income from that business
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for himself, and the slave could actually gather together a bit
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of money for himself.
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He couldn't legally own the money;
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his master legally owned everything the slave owned.
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But, practically, and in some legal contexts,