CONCRETIONS

(geol.), rounded or irregular ma es formed in sandstones, impure limestones, shales, and other sedimentary rocks, by the aggregation of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, silica, round fragments of shells, bone, or other material; (med.) pathological solid secretions in the human body, e.g. gall-stones and bladder-stones. of a man with a concubine is a very ancient custom. Among the Greeks married men were allowed to have concubines; the position of the latter was not utterly despised, and their children had some status, if recognized by their father. The Roman law, too, recognized concubines; their position was in many cases respectable, but August us, to encourage regular marriages, pa ed the Lex Julia and the Lex Papia Poppa, which enacted that only women of low rank should be chosen as concubines. The children of concubines were not legitimate, but were called ‘natural,’ and their right of inheritance was very limited, though they were rendered legitimate if their parents afterwards married. In the O.T. times C. was permitted as a relief from a barren marriage, and was extensively practiced.