Theses de hereditatibus, quae ab intestato deferuntur

succeed to each other; but not to brothers born from legitimate marriages.

XC.
Just as those legitimated by court presentation have no participation with the ascendants and descendants, or with the cognates and agnates of the father, and conversely.

XCI.
Although those joined through the maternal line, whether they are natural only or one natural and one legitimate, are not prohibited from succeeding to each other.

XCII.
Spurious or commonly known illegitimate children do not succeed to collaterals from the paternal origin, but uterine siblings, who had the same mother, and also the cognates of the mother, are called to the succession mutually.

XCIII.
As for those born from wicked, incestuous, and condemned intercourse, since they are deprived of every benefit of parents, there is no doubt that even brothers born from such an abominable connection do not succeed to each other.

XCIV.
With absolutely no descendants, no ascendants, and no collateral relatives existing, it was introduced by Praetorian law that the husband succeeds to the wife, and conversely the wife to the husband, excluding a son, intestate in full. This D. Theodosius later confirmed.

XCV.
But it is asked whether this succession also has a place in a betrothed man and woman? And we think it has a place.

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