Theses de hereditatibus, quae ab intestato deferuntur

born in fear i.e., of questionable legitimacy, cannot in any way succeed to their grandfather intestate.

XLII.
However, those legitimated succeed just as if they had been born from a legitimate marriage, except that those presented to the court original: "curiæ oblati"; a form of legitimation by state decree are only admitted to the inheritance of their father.

XLIII.
Hence a question arises: standing a statute or custom that the legitimate firstborn succeeds, does a natural firstborn legitimated by subsequent marriage exclude a natural and legitimately born second-born? We lean toward the affirmative opinion.

XLIIII.
Indeed, we embrace the negative as being more true when there have been intervening marriages with another person.

XLV.
However, to the mother, even if illustrious i.e., of noble rank, and to others ascending through the maternal line, natural children succeed together with legitimate and natural children simultaneously.

XLVI.
Spurious children, or those commonly known as illegitimate original: "vulgo quæsiti"; those born of uncertain paternity: these are not called to the inheritance of the father and those ascending through the paternal line. To the mother, even if she is illustrious, and to those proceeding from the maternal line, they succeed entirely as if they descended from a legitimate marriage, except that if legitimate children exist, nothing at all from illustrious mothers comes to the spurious children.

XLVII.
Those born from wicked, incestuous, and condemned intercourse are neither called natural, nor do they succeed to their parents. They are so completely excluded from every benefit that even sustenance is denied to them.

XLVIII.
Although according to canonical equity, following the greatest natural reason