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Inheritance law in ancient Rome

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255: 521:, if the will gave them less than one quarter of what they would have gotten in the event of intestacy and there was no reason why they had been excluded. The heirs would have to demonstrate that they had always behaved in a dutiful manner towards the deceased. If they won the case, they got the full share that they would have received in case of intestacy. This was based on the legal fiction that the testator could not have been of 122:(excluded because she was assumed to form part of her father's inheritance, not her husband's). If any of these people had already received a portion of the estate during the lifetime of the deceased (e.g. as a dowry), that amount would be subtracted from their share of the estate. Mothers of at least three children were given a right to inherit from their children by the 102:- all children, male and female, received an equal share of the estate. If there were no children, then agnate relatives in the male line would inherit (i.e. other children of the deceased's father, paternal grandfather, and so on). If there were none of these, then the Twelve Tables provided for the property to be inherited by the wider 242:) and five other witnesses . Initially, the will was made orally, but written wills became common early. By the Late Republic, the actual ceremony was no longer carried out, although the term was still being used in the second century AD. From the second century BC, all that was required was a written will sealed by seven witnesses ( 553:("trust") was an alternative method for leaving legacies instead of the will. It could consist of a specific object or property or of the whole estate. Originally, it was a gift of some property to an individual who was requested to use it for a specific purpose, but was not legally bound to do so. Under Augustus, some 340:
Under the civil law, there was an assumption that all children of the deceased were heirs unless the testator specifically disinherited them (by name for male children, by general statement for female children). Under the praetor's law, this rule was extended to emancipated sons. Sometimes a testator
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describes a father who made his son the trustee of his estate, with the ultimate beneficiaries being the son's own heirs, and a stipulation banning the son from selling or mortgaging the land. This seems to have been rare in practice. Justinian banned any such arrangement which lasted more than four
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abolished this system in two rulings delivered in AD 543 and 548, in favour of a system where property of the deceased went to the descendants in first instance, then to ascendants and siblings, and then to more distant relatives, with no distinction between the male and female line and no right to
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This system was altered by the law of the praetor, so that all children, including emancipated children, inherited in first instance, then agnate relatives in the male line, then relatives in the male or female line based according to six degrees of proximity, and finally the widow of the deceased
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when that part of the will was written. The claim only voided the specific section of the will dealing with the claimant, not the whole will. The law mostly did not specify what were valid reasons for disinheriting someone. Thus, it was generally determined by the social expectations of the jury.
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The testator could leave legacies to third parties, which the heir was obliged to pay from the estate. Legacies could provide a method for leaving property to people who could not legally be heir, but foreigners, communities, and uncertain persons could not be legatees either. Unlike the heir,
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of 40 BC, legacies could not take up more than three-quarters of the total estate (i.e. the heirs had to receive at least a quarter). If the legacies were more than this amount, then they would be reduced in order to ensure that the heirs received a quarter of the total value of the estate.
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could be given to the trustee to hold for their lifetime and then pass to a third party at death. For example, the property might be entrusted to the widow, who could use it for the rest of her life, and then would be required to pass it to the main heirs of the estate on her death.
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of a property was often granted to the widow of the deceased. Legacies were often used to leave money to towns or associations for specific purposes (e.g., holding games in honour of the deceased, constructing public buildings, providing heating for the
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declined after the Early Republican period, this ceased to occur. There was no concept that an intestate property might pass to the state. Children of the deceased who had been emancipated before the deceased's death or who had passed into the
284:). The seals of the witnesses were placed over the cord, so that it was impossible to open the tablet and view the inner copy without breaking the seals. This design was intended as a guarantee against tampering. This form was mandated by the 48:, i.e. case law), which was often more flexible. The resulting system was extremely complicated and was one of the central concerns of the whole legal system. Discussion of the laws of inheritance take up eleven of the fifty books in the 601:
did not; they were much more flexible. Thus, when wills proved to be invalid, jurists and judges would often try to fulfill the terms of the invalid will under the legal fiction that the testator had intended to create a
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of another (through certain kinds of marriage or through adoption by another) were excluded from the succession, as were relatives in the female line (i.e. relatives of the deceased's mother), and the deceased's spouse.
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could avoid the role of heir if they had not been involved in the estate before the testator's death and slave-heirs could not be forced to pay the estate's debts from their own property, only from the inherited
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of 2 BC placed an absolute maximum limit of one hundred manumissions and lower limits for estates which had smaller numbers of slaves. The motivation for this may have been a desire to limit the number of
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could not make wills under Roman law. Exiles were not allowed to make wills either and this ban was retrospective; being sent into exile voided any will that the exile had already made.
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still functioned, as long as the trustee benefitted from the estate - even in the case of intestacy. Fourthly, whereas wills had to use specific phrases in order to be valid,
448:("by obligation"), where the heir was required to make a regular payment to the legatee from the property. A legacy was only valid if the phrase "to whom I give and legate" ( 65:, but wills had to strictly follow correct formulae and phrases in order to be valid. The will had to name an heir. In addition to this, it could name a legal guardian ( 86:
occurred when someone died without any will or when they died with a will that was subsequently found to be invalid. The civil law on intestacy was laid down in the
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would disinherit their children in order to avoid them becoming liable for any debts and then require the named heir to pass the property to the children through a
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The will could also name substitute heirs, who would take over the role of the heir if the initial heir died before the testator or refused to accept the will.
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differed from legacies in several ways. Firstly, the trustee could be anyone who received something from the estate, not just the heir. Secondly, the
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and/or to prevent the testator from bankrupting the estate. Somewhere between 5% and 8% of all Roman manumissions were testamentary manumissions.
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and treated male and female children equally. However, in most cases intestacy was avoided by means of a will. Roman law recognised very broad
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of AD 9, unmarried adults could not inherit or receive legacies and married adults without children could only receive half the inheritance.
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If there was no valid heir then the whole will would fail, including legacies left to people other than the heir. Under the principle of
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Even when a disinheritance was totally legal, there was strong social pressure against disinheriting children and direct descendants.
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might be granted to servants of the deceased, to be paid on a certain day each year for the rest of the servant's life. A lifetime
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could make a will for property that they possessed in their own right. Women could make wills through a process of fictional sale (
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for unmarried and childless individuals. Thirdly, whereas legacies failed if there was no heir or the will was invalid,
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and a copy of the will was written on two of the tablets. The tablets were tied together, so that one copy was visible (
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166:(male head of household) could make a will that disposed of a whole estate. But any Roman citizen who had reached the 306:). These could be designated using the phrases "Be thou, so-and-so my heir" or "I order that so-and-so be my heir" ( 254: 622: 585: 286: 69:) for underage children, manumit slaves, and leave legacies to third parties. Over time a separate system of 583:
could benefit someone who was not a valid heir. This loophole was closed over time. For example, the
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could also be used by the testator to bind people to use the property in certain ways. For example,
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Originally, the testator was able to manumit any number of slaves in the will. Under
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The earliest forms of Roman will were made at an assembly of the people called the
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The will had to name an heir. In addition to this, it could name a legal guardian (
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that governed the inheritance of property. This law was governed by the civil law (
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Most Roman inheritances were not intestate. Instead, they were governed by a
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Exploring the Law of Succession: Studies National, Historical and Comparative
444:("by claim"), where the legatee became owner of the property in question, or 215:("with togas girded up"). Both of these methods had ceased to be used by the 640: 527: 466: 401: 184: 162:
in 1861 characterised the Roman approach as a "horror of intestacy." Only a
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Final Judgments: duty and emotion in Roman wills, 200 B.C.–A.D. 250
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legatees were not liable for the estates debts. Legacies could be
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In the case of intestacy, Roman inheritance law had no concept of
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Justinian introduced a rule called "the privilege of inventory" (
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The Roman Law of Succession in the Letters of Pliny the Younger
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Wills usually took the form of three wooden writing tablets (
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Under the civil law, the heir claimed the estate through a
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of AD 61, but it was probably the usual form before that.
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as reasons and Justinian provided a full list in AD 542.
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Fourth-century laws mention "immorality" and becoming a
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Index

Roman law
ius civile
Twelve Tables
Roman assemblies
praetor
Digest
primogeniture
freedom of testation
fideicommissa
Intestacy
primogeniture
gens
Justinian
will
Henry Maine
pater familias
age of majority
Hadrian
peregrini
intellectual disabilities
Late Republic
legal fiction

Wax tablet
Wales
wax
senatus consultum Neronianum
bankruptcy
fideicommissum
natural persons

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