Quod Deus Opt. Max. bene vertat: Ex decreto et authoritate amplissimi Iurisconsultorum Ordinis in inclyta & celeberrima Basiliensium Academia, pro insigniis & privilegiis Doctoralibus in U.I. consequendis, De Successionibus ab Intestato & cognationis gradibus, eorumque computatione, subsequentes Conclusiones

and natural ones together: provided, however, that those succeeding as legitimated by the curia are bound to yield a part to the curia.

L.

Furthermore, in those cases where we have said natural children are called to the succession, in these, they also owe decent devotion to their natural fathers.

LI.

If, therefore, a natural child dies without descendants and a wife, only two-twelfths original: "vnciæ" (twelfths of an inheritance) fall to the father.

LII.

But if with the natural father the mother also exists, she will be heir in ten twelfths along with brothers born of the same concubinage, and the father in two.

LIII.

Clearly, everything that has been said about illegitimate children, those born of incest, infamy, adultery, and illicit unions, we decide must be held the same for their parents.

LIV.

Finally, when the succession of the ascending and descending line ceases, the inheritance will belong to those connected from the side.

LV.

Among these, in the first place are full brothers and sisters, called ἀμφιβαλᾶς those related on both sides, by head each individual person taking an equal share, and with these come the children of predeceased brothers or sisters by line of descent.

LVI.

And indeed, the aforementioned children of brothers and sisters, even if they are in the third degree, are preferred to brothers connected through only one parent (called ἑτεροθαλᾶς half-siblings) and his paternal uncles and the like: which, however, does not proceed in the case of grandchildren.

LVII.

Truly, whether the children of brothers or sisters, if they are alone, should divide the inheritance of the deceased paternal uncle or paternal aunt by lines of descent or by head, is a doubtful contest among the Doctors. But the equity of the Caroline Constitution a legal code of the Holy Roman Empire in the Diet of Speyer, held in the year of Christ 1529, which approves the opinion of Zasius, and invites the nephews to share equally according to the number of persons, has settled it.