In the same way, a wife (in so far as she entered marriage as a matron, and not as one who in manum cotlveniret, in mancipio esset, as on entering a state of slavery) continued to belong to the family from which she came, rather than to the family which, by her marriage, she had in part founded and which was now actually her own; and she was therefore debar red from inheriting the resources of those who were actually her fo,mily, just as the latter could not inherit from their wife and mother.