INTRODUCTION
If a person is to be allowed to own property, the law has to have rules for the distribution of that property when the owner dies. A particular legal system may allow a person to make a will, or it may distribute part or all of the deceased’s assets according to set rules.
Those rules may well be complex, to take into account all eventualities. If wills are allowed, they will also require legal regulation. There is no end to the number of different ways in which a person might decide to distribute his estate, and so the rules for wills are also likely to become complex.The Roman law of succession, in cases both testate and intestate, was extremely complex. On top of the original ius civile rules, there were overlaid layers of praetorian and statutory development. The purpose of this chapter is to give only an overview of the main principles and institutions of the law.
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