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“Wills that are made in accordance
with law shall be valid. When parents die intestate,
their children shall be the heirs. A disinherited son
shall receive none of his father's property. A bastard,
if born before a legitimate son, shall be treated as
legitimate, but if born after a legitimate son shall be
treated merely as a citizen. It shall be lawful to give
a son in adoption. Every son given in adoption shall
have the right to re-enter his own family if his natural
father has died childless. ”
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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