The Roman Institutional Treatises

Categories (Cont'd)

[§ numbers are to G.I., unless otherwise noted]

Things (res) (cont'd):

acquisition of things per universitatem–2.97-9
si qui heredes facti sumus (hereditas)			bonorum possessio–scattered	bonorum emptio–3.77-81	adoptio, conventio in manum, [in iure cessio]–3.81-87
1. ex testamento –2.100-190	2. [legacies and fideicommissa] –2.191-289	3. ab intestato –3.1-76

1. ex testamento–2.100-190
form and capacity–2.101-13	requirements for validity–2.114-51a	heirs–2.152-90

1.a. forms of testamentum–2.101-11
calatis comitiis–§101	in procinctu–§101	per aes et libram–§§102-4
restrictions on witnesses–§§105-8 soldiers' wills–§§105-8

b. fragment concerning women's wills (the whole § may have dealt with capacity)–§§112-13

c. requirements for validity: testamenti factio and secundum regulam iuris civilis–§§114-46

initial requirements
heredis institutio–§§116-17	auctoritas tutoris–§§118-23 [with excursus on bonorum possessio secundum tabulas]	exheredatio–§§123-9

d. bonorum possessio cum re–§§147-51a

e. heredes–§§152
necessarii–§§153-5	sui et necessarii–§§156-60	extranei and cretio–§§161-73

f. substitutio
vulgaris–§§174-8	pupilaris–§§179-84

g. institution of slaves–§§185-90

2. legacies and fideicommissa–2.191-289

a. legacies
vindication–§§193-200	damnation–§§201-8	permission–§§209-15	preception–§§216-23
ll. Furia (c. 200 B.C.), Voconia (169 B.C.), Falcidia (40 B.C.), Fufia Canina (2 B.C.)–lawyers' legal history–§§224-28

void legacies
ante heredis institutionem –§§229-31	post mortem heredis –§§223-4	poenae nomine –§§209-15	incertae personae –§§216-23	his qui in potestate sunt –§§216-23

b. fideicommissa
of hereditas–§§247-59	of res singulae–§§260-2	of libertas–§§263-7
differences between fideicommissa and legacies–note parallels to the development of the use–§§268-89

3. succession ab intestato–3.1-76
a. ab ingenuis–§§1-38	b. a libertis–§§39-76

a. ab ingenuis
[iure civili]			[iure honorario] bonorum possessio
sui–§§1-9	agnati–§§9-16	gentiles–§17	emendandi or impugnandi iuris civilis–§§1-38	confrimandi iuris civilis–§§1-38	bonorum possessio sine re–§§1-38

b. a libertis–§39
cives–§54		Latini–§§55-72	cives tamquam Latini–§§72-3	dediticii–§§74-6
men–§§40-42	women–§§43-44
descendants of patrons–§§45-48 descendants of patronesses–§§49-53

other forms of acquisition per universitatem–3.77-87
bonorum emptio–§§77-81	adoptio and conventio in manum–§§82-84	in iure cessio of an hereditas–§§185-7

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