Theses de successione feudali

VII.
But Agnati male-line relatives cannot dispose of anything at all to the prejudice of other Agnati.

VIII.
Because the lord is seen to have provided for all Agnati, so that the closer relative, once the former is deceased, is always admitted. Therefore, an Agnatus cannot take away this right, which was born from the first grant, from those who are more remote.

IX.
Accordingly, with no regard for disposition or alienation, the right of an Agnatus who did not provide consent must remain safe and whole.

X.
Therefore, that succession which is deferred by intestacy is primary in fiefs, yet it does not obtain the same status as it does by civil law.

XI.
For this divides succession by blood relationship into three degrees: Ascendants, Descendants, and Collaterals.

XII.
Among these, there is no place for Ascendants in succession.

XIII.
Unless a trust was contracted, and the father arranged for the son to be invested with the fief. Then, indeed, if the son dies first, the fief...