1.Hereditas 1
2.Forms of Wills 8
3.Capacity to Make, Take Under, or Witness a Will 22
E x c u R s u s : The Early History of Fideicommissa 35
4.Institution, Disinherison, Substitution 40
5.Void and Ineffective Wills 61
6.Praetorian Modifocations of Testate Succession 71
7.Principles of Interpretation 85
8.Conditions and Similar Clauses in Wills 101
9.Types of Legacies 122
10.Extent of Legacies 134
11.Further Aspects of Legacies 155
12.Legislation on Legacies 163
13.Intestate Succession 175
14.Hereditas Iacens: Cretio and Aditio; Hereditatis Petitio 188
Index of Texts 199
Index 208