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And it is immaterial whether the stipulatio is in Latin or in Greek, or in any other language, so that the parties understand it; nor is it necessary that the same language should be...

If, however, you take with you on a journey the thing lent you to make use of, and you lose it by the attack of enemies or robbers, or by shipwreck, you are undoubtedly...

XIV. Other Ways of Contracting an Obligatio.An obligatio may be contracted by the thing, as, for example, by giving a mutuum. This always consists of things which may be weighed, numbered, or measured, as...

And in the constitutio we have ourselves promulgated we have completely departed from the provisions of those former constitutiones, and have enacted that agnati shall take no part in the succession of the deceased,...

But persons adopted by an ascendant are excepted in our constitutio; for, as natural and civil rights both concur in their favor, we have thought proper to preserve to this adoption its effect under...

12. The same rules are observed in the possession of goods which the praetor gives contra tabulas to children who have been passed over, that is, who have neither been instituted heirs, nor properly...

9. Emancipated children by the civil law have no right to the inheritance of their father; being no longer under the power of their parent, they are not his sui heredes, nor are they...

6. A son, or a daughter, and a grandson or granddaughter by another son, are called equally to the inheritance; nor does the nearer in degree exclude the more remote; for it seems just...

We must also reckon among them those, who, though not born in lawful wedlock, nevertheless, according to the tenor of the imperial constitutiones, acquire the rights of sui heredes by being presented to the...

We have corrected this, making illegal what they endeavored to prevent by persuasion. For, in imitation of the old law respecting the familiae emptor, we refuse to permit the heir, who now represents the...