Theses de successione feudali (1588) - Page 8

We believe it is not possible when other sons and Agnati exist.

XXIX.
Unless the evident utility of the Republic demands it.

XXX.
Adopted children, clerics, and monks are also excluded from this succession.

XXXI.
Nor will a person arrive at the succession of a fief who has abstained from the father's inheritance.

XXXII.
For he cannot renounce it without the benefit the fief. But he will either retain both or renounce both.

XXXIII.
But in the case of an Agnatus, a distinction must be made. Either the fief is new and acquired by the deceased, and comes to the Agnatus; then he is compelled to enter the inheritance with the fief, since he has both the fief and the right of succeeding from him.

XXXIV.
Or it is paternal, and with the fief retained, he can renounce the inheritance of the deceased. For he does not acquire the fief by the benefit of the Agnatus.

XXXV.
As, therefore, there is one nature of a new fief, and another of a paternal fief...