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414 SOVEREIGNTY. Sovereignty, territorial, proposition of International Law on, 109, 103.

Tribe-sovereignty, 104.

Charlemagne and universal dominion, 106.

Territorial sovereignty an offshoot of feudalism, 107.

the See of Rome, 108.

Hugh Capet, 108.

the Anglo-Saxon princes, 108.

Naples, Spain, and Italy, 108.

Venice, 109.

points of junction between territorial sovereignty and modern public law, 112.

Spain, territorial sovereignty of the monarchs of, 106.

Status, movement of societies from, to contract, 170.

Statute law of the Romans, 41, 45.

Stoic philosophy, principles of the, 54.

its rapid progress in Roman society, 55.

alliance of the Roman lawyers with the Stoics, 55.

Succession, rules of, according to the Hindoo customary law, 7.

Testamentary, 171.

early history, 171.

influence of the Church in enforcing the sanctity of Wills, 173.

English law of, 173.

qualities necessarily attached to Wills, 174.

natural right of testation, 175.

restraints imposed by the Code Napoléon, 176.

nature of a Will, 177.

rights and duties of universal successor, 177.

usual Roman definition of an Inheritance, 181.

difference between modern testamentary jurisprudence and the ancient law of Rome, 182.

the Family regarded as a Corporation, 184.

old Roman law of Inheritance and its notion of a Will, 189.

ancient objects of Wills, 190.

Sacra, or Family Rites, of the Romans, 191.

and of the Hindoos, 191, 192.

the invention of Wills due to Romans, 194.

Succession,  Roman ideas of Succession, 195.

Testamentary Succession less ancient than Intestate Succession, 195.

primitive operation of Wills, 196.

Wills of the ancient Germans, 196.

Jewish and Bengalee Wills, 197.

mode of execution of ancient Roman wills, 199.

description of ancient Roman Wills, 201.

influence of ancient Plebeian Wills on the civilisation of the modern world, 203.

the Mancipation, 204.

relation of Wills to conveyances. 204.

the Testament per æs et libram, 204, 213, 214.

consequence of this relation of Testaments to conveyances, 206.

remedies, 207.

ancient Wills not written, 207.

remarks on the expression Emptor Familiæ, 208.

the Prætorian Will, 209.

the Bonorum Possessio and the Bonorum Possessor, 211.

improvements in the old Will, 212, 213.

ancient and modern ideas respecting Wills and successors, 215.

Disinherison of Children, 215.

the age of Wills coeval with that of feudalism, 224.

introduction of the principle of Dower, 224.

rights of Heirs and Co-heirs under the Roman law, 227.

Intestate, 195.

ancient Roman law of, 199, 218.

the Justinianean scale of Intestate Succession, 219.

order of Intestate Succession among the Romans, 220.

horror of intestacy f^t by the Romans, 222, 223.

rights of all the children of the deceased under the Roman law, 227.

Universal, 177, 189.

in what it consists, 179.

the universal successor, 181.