Women in Roman Law & Society"The book meets the highest standards of scholarly rigor, and treatment of disputed issues is informative without being esoteric. An excellent general survey and introduction." -- Choice ..". will be enormously useful for those interested in teaching courses on Roman women or Roman law." -- The Classical Outlook |
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Page 169
... Heirs A will had to provide for the disposal of an estate in its entirety ; it was not possible to make bequests of part of it and leave the rest to be assigned by the rules of intestate succession . An heir or heirs must be nominated ...
... Heirs A will had to provide for the disposal of an estate in its entirety ; it was not possible to make bequests of part of it and leave the rest to be assigned by the rules of intestate succession . An heir or heirs must be nominated ...
Page 170
... heir or heirs taken together . That meant that it was possible to leave a single legacy , of almost half the estate . A device of this sort , known as the legatum partitionis , by which the heir was instructed to share the estate with a ...
... heir or heirs taken together . That meant that it was possible to leave a single legacy , of almost half the estate . A device of this sort , known as the legatum partitionis , by which the heir was instructed to share the estate with a ...
Page 174
... heirs and leave the daughter a legacy of up to half the property . Daughters in a large family stood to lose relatively little , since each individually could receive as much as the heir or heirs together in legacies ; on intestacy ...
... heirs and leave the daughter a legacy of up to half the property . Daughters in a large family stood to lose relatively little , since each individually could receive as much as the heir or heirs together in legacies ; on intestacy ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Guardianship of Women | 5 |
Marriage | 31 |
Copyright | |
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