The law of testamentary succession elaborated the rules pertaining to the creation of a valid will, the nature of the dispositions that could be included in a will and the effect of these dispositions.

As these rules were very complicated, the matter was also initially regulated by the ius civile and then later by ius praetorium. By the time of Justinian, however, the early forms of will had either become obsolete or so radically changed that they were scarcely recognizable.

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More on the topic The law of testamentary succession elaborated the rules pertaining to the creation of a valid will, the nature of the dispositions that could be included in a will and the effect of these dispositions.:

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2. The rules of intestate succession came into operation when a person failed to create a valid will or when the will he composed was later declared legally invalid.
3. Outgoing Goods: Dispositions of Generally Pledged Assets
4. Testamentary Succession
5. Testamentary succession
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7. Testamentary Succession
8. As previously noted, the Romans considered the law of succession to be part of the law of things, since succession was construed as a mode of acquisition of rights over things in a mass (per universitatem).
9. After having treated, in the first two chapters, the problems of mandatory norms — rules and principles — and of power-conferring rules, purely con­stitutive rules and definitions, we will now set out to examine permissive sen­tences.
10. The History of the Testamentary Executor
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12. Intestate Succession in Justinian's Law
13. The law of succession addresses the legal destiny of a person’s rights and duties after his death.