357/3 (Merkel) Cap.  LVIII., De chrenecruda.  Sohm, Frank.  R. u.  G. Verf., 117.

358/1 A.D. 679:  “Sicuti tibi donata est ira tene et posteri tui.”  Kemble, Cod.  Dip., I. 21, No. xvi.  Uhtred, A.D. 767:  “Quam is semper possideat et post se cui voluerit heredum relinquat.”  Ib.  I. 144, cxvxi. ("Cuilibet heredi voluerit relinquat” is very common in the later charters; ib.  V. 155, MLXXXIL; lb.  VI. 1, MCCXVIIL; it). 31, MCCXXX.; lb. 38, MCCXXXIV.; and passim.  This may be broader than cui voluerit herealum.) Offa, A.D. 779:  “Ut se viverite habe . . . deat. et post se suoe propinquitatis homini cui ipse vo . . . possidendum libera utens potestate relinquat.”  Ib.  I. 164, 165, CXXXVII.  Aethilbald, A.D. 736:  “Ita ut quamdiu vixerit potestatem habeat tenendi ac possidendi cuicumque voluerit vel eo vivo vel certe post obitum suum relinquendi.”  Ib.  I. 96, LXXX.; cf. ib.  V. 53, MXIV.  Cuthred of Kent, A.D. 805:  “Cuicumque hominum voluerit in aeternam libertatem derelinquat.”  Ib.  I. 232, CXC.  “Ut habeat libertatem commutandi vel donandi in vita sua et post ejus obiturn teneat facultatem relinquendi cuicumque volueris.”  Ib.  I. 233, 234, CXCI.; cf. ib.  V. 70, MXXXI.  Wiglaf of Mercia, Aug. 28, A.D. 831:  “Seu vendendum ant commutandum i cuicumque ei herede placuerit dereliaquendum.”  Ib.  I. 294, CCXXVII.

359/1 “W. et heredibus suis, videlicet quos heredes constituerit.”  Memorials of Hexham, Surtees Soc.  Pub., 1864, II. 88.

359/2 Cf.  Y.B. 27 Ass., fol. 135, pl. 25.  Under the Welsh laws the champion in a cause decided by combat acquired the rights of the next of kin, the next of kin being the proper champion.  Lea, Superstition and Force (3d Ed.), 165.  Cf. ib. 161, n. 1; ib. 17.

361/1 D. 38. 8. 1, pr.

361/2 “Cum is, qui ex edicto bonorum possessionem petiit, ficto se herede agit.”  Gaii Inst.  IV.  Section 34.  Cf.  Ulp.  Fragm.  XXVIII.  Section 12; D. 37. 1. 2.  So the fidei commissarius, who was a praetorian successor (D. 41. 4. 2, Section 19; 10. 2. 24), “in similitudinem heredis consistit.”  Nov. 1. 1, Section 1.  Cf.  Just.  Inst. 2. 24, pr., and then Gaius, II.  Sections 251, 252.

361/3 Gaii Inst.  II.  Sections 102 et seq.  Cf. ib.  Sections 252, 35.

361/4 Gaii Inst.  IV Section 35:  “Similiter et bonorum emptor ficto se herede agit.”  Cf. ib.  Sections 144, 145.  Keller, Roemische Civilprocess, Section 85, III.  But cf.  Scheurl, Lehrb. der Inst., Section 218, p. 407 (6th ed.).

361/5 Paulus in D. 50. 17. 128.

362/1 “In re legata in accessione temporis quo testator possedit, legatarius quodammodo quasi heres est.”  D. 41. 3. 14, Section 1.

362/2 D. 41.1.62; 43. 3. 1, Section 6; Gaii Inst.  II.  Section 97; Just.  Inst. 2. 10, Section 11.

363/1 “[Accessiones possessionum] plane tribuuntur his qui in locum aliorum succedunt sive ex contractu sive voluntate:  heredibus enum et his, qui successorum loco habentur, datur accessio testatoris.  Itaque si mihi vendideris servum utar accesssione tua.”  D. 44.3.14, Sections 1, 2.