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Holtermann, Heinrich · 1582

XXI.
In an old fief, the closer agnates of the first acquirer from the same stock succeed equally.
XXII.
Hence, brothers succeed to a brother (I speak of those related on both sides) equally, provided there are no descendants, even if one had refused the fief to the dead brother and his heirs, or to whom he would have given it when he died intestate.
XXIII.
Only blood relatives original: "consanguinei", if the fief is masculine, are admitted here with brothers related on both sides, contrary to the rules of civil law; it is otherwise if it is feminine.
XXIV.
The question pertains to the practice of the right of withdrawal. If a father, having left children from a prior marriage, marries another woman who brings a fief as a dowry, and has children by her, upon their death, can the children from the prior marriage succeed in the fief? I will defend that it is the law that not only the children of the prior marriage but also the father himself cannot succeed in a fief acquired for the sake of agnates and cognates.
XXV.
If, upon the death of a brother, there are brothers and sons of brothers surviving, they succeed to the paternal uncles by lines according to feudal law. But what if only the sons of brothers are called to the inheritance of the paternal uncle? And indeed, in the case of