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XLVI.
What has been said regarding the succession of brothers both natural and legitimate at the same time also has a place for those legitimized by subsequent marriage: but not for brothers legitimized by a rescript of the prince or an offering to the court. For these succeed only to the father, not to the other agnates of the father.
XLVII.
Transverse collateral adopted persons, who have not passed into the power of the adopter, do not succeed to transverse relatives; however, those adopted by ascendants, both from the paternal and maternal line, succeed to each other transversely.
XLVIII.
Brothers natural only, and other collateral relatives joined through the paternal line, do not succeed to each other; but those natural only, joined through the maternal line, do succeed to each other.
XLIX.
Among those born from incest, and those born from a condemned coition, there is no succession among transverse relatives.
L.
With absolutely no descendants, or ascendants, or relatives joined from the side existing, up to the tenth degree, the husband succeeds to the wife, and conversely the wife to the husband, in the entirety of the estate by intestacy.
LI.
This possession of goods bonorum possessio, whence husband and wife [succeed], lacking children, agnates, cognates, and wife, is not to be extended to the father-in-law or the father of the wife, against the opinion of Baldus, Jason, and Paulus de Castro, who approve of that opinion.
LII.
With a marriage existing without a dowry and the wife being needy, while the husband is wealthy and departs from the living, whether children exist from the same marriage.