Theses de hereditatibus, quae ab intestato deferuntur

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THESIS I.
INHERITANCE is nothing other than succession to the entire right which the deceased held.

II.
It is called succession: that is, the right of succession.

III.
For inheritance is a name of right: not of a body, not of money: it is an incorporeal thing, not a corporeal one.

IIII.
Inheritance, I say, is a certain incorporeal thing, which succeeds to every right that the deceased held.

V.
We consider the opinion of those to be erroneous who say that by the term SUCCESSION, either the act by which an heir succeeds, or the right of succeeding, or the thing to which one succeeds, is denoted.

VI.
Because inheritance is the succeeding right itself, which refers to and represents the deceased from the time of his death until the entry is made by the heir.

VII.
For indeed, the lying inheritance original: "iacens hereditas" — an estate not yet entered upon by an heir is lord or lady, and sustains the person of the deceased.

VIII.
Lying inheritance: not yet entered.

IX.
For an heir, by entering the inheritance, not only succeeds to every right of the dead, but is understood to have succeeded from the very time of the death of the deceased.