 Initially, "cum manu" was the sole form of marriage, but eventually only "sine manu" marriage was widely practiced.In a cum manu union, the wife was released from the control of her father and became a member of her husband's family, standing thereafter under "potestas" of her husband or her father-in-law.Legally adopted by her husband, she received the same entitlements as other children in the family over matters of intestate succession and inherited thereafter not from her father but from her husband.