Theses de successione feudali

XLVIII.
However, as long as a male survives from the one who was first invested with the fief, no place is open for a woman.

XLIX.
For they are not admitted together with the males, but in successive order; even if it was not expressly agreed upon in that matter, but given to males and females.

L.
For I believe the distinction between these agreements—such as "until a male survives, a woman shall not succeed" and "that males and females shall succeed"—is invented by the interpreters, beyond the reason of the law.

LI.
For if the conjunction "and" is not accepted conjunctively, but according to the subject matter, successively, then by this very fact women are not excluded, but their succession is suspended until, the obstacle being removed, the order of succession reaches them.

LII.
And they themselves would interpret the successive order in vain if it were to be taken as exclusively effective. For then there would be no order and no succession.

Therefore,