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The Roman law of wills has had considerable effect upon English law. In the words of Sir Henry Maine, "The English law of testamentary succession to personalty has become a modified English form of the dispensation under which the inheritances of law. Roman citizens were administered."
Administrator – person appointed or who petitions to administer an estate in an intestate succession. The antiquated English term of administratrix was used to refer to a female administrator but is generally no longer in standard legal usage. Apertura tabularum – in ancient law books, signifies the breaking open of a last will and testament.
Inheritance law in ancient Rome was the Roman law that governed the inheritance of property. This law was governed by the civil law of the Twelve Tables and the laws passed by the Roman assemblies, which tended to be very strict, and law of the praetor (ius honorarium, i.e. case law), which was often more flexible. [1]
The administration of the law relating to burials and burying-places, and the worship of the manes or dead ancestors. The superintendence of all marriages by confarreatio, i.e. originally of all legal patrician marriages. The administration of the law of adoption and of testamentary succession.
In modern law, the terms inheritance and heir refer exclusively to succession to property by descent from a deceased dying intestate. Takers in property succeeded to under a will are termed generally beneficiaries, and specifically devises for real property, bequests for personal property (except money), or legatees for money.
After the Norman conquest of England, the Church succeeded [when?] in allowing a person to leave part of his property to the church to fund its activities.. In the law of the Republic of Ireland, the Succession Act 1965 reduces freedom of testation by guaranteeing provision for the spouse and children of the deceased.
Gift (law), assets that have been legally transferred from one person to another Legacy , testamentary gift of personal property, traditionally of money but may be real or personal property Life estate , [ 1 ] a concept used in common and statutory law to designate the ownership of land for the duration of a person's life
Holographic wills are referred to as "privileged will" under §65 of the Succession Act, 1925, and are permissible only for military personnel who have reached the age of 18 and are currently on an expedition. Under §66, the privileged will can be executed in writing or orally in front of two witnesses. [9]