Law of Succession. Roman Legal Framework and Comparative Law Perspective

• Druk: 2011
• Autor: Franciszek Longchamps de Berier
• Wydawca: Wolters Kluwer Polska SA

The experience of comparative law extends the experience of Roman law, verifies it and points to the dead-end alleys into which one can be led if the precepts of Roman law are slavishly followed. Roman law should, however, be included in analyses of comparative law. If these analyses are thorough and based on an understanding of the law and its mechanisms, aims, values and principles, and do not simply involve comparing clauses or consist in arguing to prove a hypothesis that has been formulated in advance – then they are aware of and they prove the great value of the experience of Roman law. The Roman law of succession, which was so well developed and dogmatically rich, evolved over many centuries thus constituting a jurisprudential framework of concepts. This framework can be treated as the language that is used for talking about the law of succession in general, irrespective even of which legal tradition the binding regulations derive from. Knowledge of the Roman law of succession allows any law of succession to be described. The Roman law of succession also creates the framework for discussion about the law of succession and regulations adopted by particular countries: about reforms, in the case of some countries, and building from scratch in the case of others. Furthermore, on account of the legal experience and specifically as a language of understanding, it creates excellent opportunities for the debate on the unification of the law of succession in Europe.

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• Język wydania: polski
• ISBN: 978-83-264-2675-9
• ISBN druku: 978-83-264-1468-8
• EAN: 9788326426759
• Liczba stron: 292

INTRODUCTION 
 str. 9

PART I
THE LAW 
 str. 21

CHAPTER 1
General notions 
 str. 23

§ 1. Law of succession and other branches of private law 
 str. 23

§ 2. Means of protection under the law of succession 
 str. 26

1. Hereditatis petitio 
 str. 27

2. Quorum bonorum interdictum 
 str. 34

3. Cognitiones extra ordinem 
 str. 38

§ 3. Individuals and succession 
 str. 40

1. Testamenti factio activa 
 str. 41

2. Testamenti factio passiva 
 str. 44

3. Capacitas 
 str. 48

4. Indignitas 
 str. 49

CHAPTER 2
Values and principles of the Roman law of succession 
 str. 52

§ 4. Values of the law of succession 
 str. 53

§ 5. Principles of the law of succession 
 str. 54

1. Nemo pro parte testatus, pro parte intestatus decedere potest 
 str. 54

2. Freedom of testation 
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3. Principle of family solidarity 
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4. Respect for a dead person's wishes 
 str. 78

5. Semel heres semper heres 
 str. 80

6. Nasciturus pro iam nato habetur quotiens de commodis eius agitur 
 str. 83

CHAPTER 3
Intestate succession 
 str. 88

§ 6. Order of succession in civil law 
 str. 89

§ 7. Order of succession in praetorian law 
 str. 95

§ 8. Order of succession in Justinian's Novels 
 str. 102

§ 9. Applying the Roman law framework in intestate succession 
 str. 109

CHAPTER 4
After the death of the de cuius 
 str. 113

§ 10. Succession against the will 
 str. 113

§ 11. From entitlement to succession 
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1. The various groups of individuals 
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2. Death of the testator vs. acquisition of the inheritance 
 str. 125

3. Transmission 
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4. Accruals 
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§ 12. Acquisition of the inheritance 
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1. Acquisition of the inheritance ipso iure 
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2. Modes of accepting the succession 
 str. 135

§ 13. Issues infl uencing decisions about inheritance 
 str. 138

1. Usucaption 
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2. Liability for the debts of the deceased 
 str. 139

3. Benefi t of inventory 
 str. 142

4. Protection of creditors 
 str. 145

5. Inheritance tax 
 str. 146

PART II
THE TESTATOR 
 str. 149

CHAPTER 5
External formalities pertaining to the will 
 str. 151

§ 14. Archaic law - the calatis comitiis will and the in procinctu will 
 str. 152

§ 15. From mancipatio familiae to the mancipatory will 
 str. 153

§ 16. The praetorian will 
 str. 158

§ 17. Later forms of wills 
 str. 163

§ 18. Emergency wills and special cases 
 str. 168

§ 19. Military wills 
 str. 170

CHAPTER 6
Contents of the will 
 str. 176

§ 20. Appointment of the successor 
 str. 176

1. Instituting an heir 
 str. 176

2. Heirs by substitution 
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§ 21. Disinherison - exheredatio 
 str. 190

§ 22. Gifts out of the inheritance 
 str. 193

1. Legacies 
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2. Fideicommissa 
 str. 203

§ 23. Other testamentary decisions 
 str. 210

1. Manumissions 
 str. 210

2. Appointment of a guardian 
 str. 211

3. Instructions 
 str. 212

§ 24. Dispositions not necessarily made in the will 
 str. 215

1. Codicillary clauses and codicils 
 str. 215

2. Deathbed gifts 
 str. 220

CHAPTER 7
Interpretation of wills 
 str. 228

§ 25. The testator's intentions vs. the form and contents of the will 
 str. 228

§ 26. Favor testamenti 
 str. 231

ABBREVIATIONS 
 str. 249

INDEX OF SOURCES 
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