Roman Law - Law of Inheritance

Types of Heir under testate succession?

• Sui heredes, The nearest agnate, The gens

• Liberi, Legitimi, Cognates

• Sui et necessarii heredes, Necessarii heredes, Extranei

• Peregrines, Dediticii, Intestabiles

What are the devices available to help creditors and heirs?

• S.C. Tertullianum and S.C. Orphitianum

• hereditatis petitio and exceptio doli

• bonorum possessio and collatio bonorum

• separatio bonorum and beneficium inventarii

What is meant by hereditas petitio?

• an action in rem for the recovery of the relevant property

• an action in personam for the recovery of the relevant property

• an action in jus gentium for the recovery of the relevant property

• an action available in 12 tables for the recovery of the relevant property

What are the most important two legacies?

• Legacies per praeceptionem, Legacies sinendi modo

• Legacies per bonorum, Legacies per ex testamento

• Legacies per vindicationem, Legacies per damnationem

• Legacies per vindicatio, Legacies per neronianum

Justinian confirmed the trend by ruling that legacies were of one nature, enforceable by any of three remedies at the option of the legatee. what are they?

• vindicatio, actio ex testamento and actio hypothecaria

• actio neronianum, actio ex testamento and actio hypothecaria

• vindicatio, actio ex testamento and actio neronianum

• actio hypothecari, actio praeceptionem and actio ex testamento

Certain categories of legacy merit attention because of the special rules applying to them. The most important were:

• Unconditional legacies, legatum optionis, legatum generis, legatum partitionis, legatum debiti

• Conditional legacies, legatum optionis, legatum generis, legatum partitionis, legatum falcidia

• Conditional legacies, legatum optionis, legatum generis, legatum partitionis, legatum debiti

• Unconditional legacies, legatum optionis, legatum generis, legatum partitionis, legatum falcidia

The appointment of an heir as per Gaius?

• The one of essential requirements for a valid will

• The Source and Foundation of the whole will

• Can be considered after the capacity of the testator

• Must be aligned with the requirements of Jus Civile