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The son
who was made heir by the will finds his way barred
by the law “A disinherited son shall receive none of
his father's property.” The basis is one resting on
the letter of the law and intention, and the problem is
whether he can inherit by any means at all? can he
do so in accordance with the intention of his father?
or in virtue of the fact that he was made heir by the
will? The problem confronting the bastard is twofold, since he was born after the two legitimate sons
[p. 461]
and was not born before a legitimate son.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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