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Decuma
(121 words)
[German version] (=
decima sc. pars). The law of Papia Poppaea (AD 9) limited to one-tenth of the inheritance (with additional allowances for children) the capacity (
capacitas) of spouses in
manus-free marriage to inherit from the testament of another. A wife in
manus- marriage was, however,
sua heres entitled to inherit the entire estate [2].The limit was abolished in AD 410 (Cod. Iust. 8,57,2). Apart from inheritance law, the tithe occurs as subject of a vo…
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Heredium
(146 words)
[German version] In the language of the XII Tables (7,3) the farmstead measuring two
iugera (0.5 ha.; Plin. HN 19,4,50), consisting of a
hortus (farm with garden, Paul Fest. 91,12 L.) and
ager (agricultural land). Tradition has it that Romulus assigned to each citizen an inalienable
heredium, which was passed on to the respective heir (
heres) (Varro Rust. 1,10,2); the XII Tables already allowed the entire property to be sold and inherited (6,1; 5,3), thi…
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Prodigus
(120 words)
[German version] A
prodigus ('spendthrift') was placed by the Twelve Tablets (7,4c) under the care (
cura) of their closest agnates (
agnatio ) who were to administer his wealth, so that their future right of inheritance (inheritance law III. C.;
intestatus ) should not be at risk. In the classical law of the 1st-3rd cents. AD, a
prodigus…
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Aditio hereditatis
(76 words)
[German version] According to Roman law a
suus heres acquired the inheritance left to him without any further action on his part, but an
extraneus only on accession (
aditio). The
aditio could take place by formal declaration of accession (
cretio) or by informal exercise of the will to accept (
pro herede gestio). Succession, law of III B; Abstentio Manthe, Ulrich (Passau) Bibliography …
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Agnatio
(202 words)
[German version] In Roman law the relationship between persons who are under the
manus or
patria potestas of the same
pater familias or would be if he were still alive (in other words were descended from him in a purely male line, not interrupted by emancipation, Gai. Inst. 1,156). Those persons subjected to this power, who on the death of their
pater familias immediately became free from power (
sui iuris), formed the narrower circle of the
sui heredes ; a particular group of
agnati …
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Codicilli
(126 words)
[German version] The last will and testament written down as an informal document. In a codicil, only individual instructions could be laid down, but not the appointment or removal of an heir. Codicils were valid as an amendment to a testament if their establishment was reserved in an earlier testament or confirmed in a later one (
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Querela inofficiosi testamenti
(295 words)
[German version] 'Complaint because of a testament contrary to duty'. If, according to Roman law, a next-of-kin of a testator was effectively disinherited (Succession, laws of, III. E) or bequeathed less than one quarter of his legal share of the inheritance (
intestatus), and if he had not received this quarter through a bequest (
legatum,
fideicommissum) or donation moved by the consideration of death (
donatio mortis causa), he could go before the
centumviri or use the
cognitio extra ordi…
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Wills and testaments
(3,807 words)
[German version] [1] (Religion) see Bible; Christianity; New Testament Apocrypha; Septuagint; Testamentary literature; Vulgate (Religion) see Bible; Christianity; New Testament Apocrypha; Septuagint; Testamentary literature; Vulgate Hengstl, Joachim (Marburg/Lahn) [German version] [2] History of law (History of law) Hengstl, Joachim (Marburg/Lahn) [German version] I. General Testament (from the Latin
testamentum in the sense of the final will made before witnesses; see below IV.) denotes a unilateral 'last will and testament' (or, in common E…
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Succession, laws of
(1,791 words)
[German version] I. Ancient Near East see Cuneiform, legal texts in Thür, Gerhard (Graz) [German version] II. Greek Succession laws in Greece primarily followed the concept of family succession. Greek law therefor…
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Postumus
(1,067 words)
[German version] [1] Roman praenomen Roman
praenomen , like other numerical
praenomina (Quintus) given to a child according to the order of his birth; the adjective
postumus ('last') refers to the birth 'after the father's death' (cf. P. [2]). The use of the name as a
praenomen is evident in Rome up to the 3rd cent. BC, after that only as a
cognomen . The wider geographical spread of *
Postumo- as an Italic personal name can be concluded from its Etruscan derivative, where it led to the formation of a
nomen gentile,
Pustmi-na- (CIE 8715), the equivalent to the Roman
Postumius. Steinbauer, Dieter (Regensburg) Bibliography Salomies, 42-44. [German version] [2] Born after the father's death In Roman law according to the Twelve Tables (
Tabulae duodecim , 4,4), a child born within 10 months (295 days according to the ancient Roman calendar) after the death of the
pater familias was seen as legitimate, because he or she was considered to have been fathered by the testator and would have been under his parental authority if born earlier. Whether a child born later was still subject to the same ruli…
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