КОМЕНТАРИ ПО ТИТУЛ XVI (DE LEGITIMA SUCCESSIONE) ОТ COLLATIO LEGUM MOSAICARUM ET ROMANORUM
COMMENTS ON TITLE XVI (DE LEGITIMA SUCCESSIONE) OF COLLATIO LEGUM MOSAICARUM ET ROMANORUM

Summary/Abstract: The essay is focused on the XVI titulus of the Collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum, dedicated to the matter of the legacy without testament (de legitima successione) in biblical and Roman law. Regarding Hebrew law, the text of the book of Numbers (36:1–7) is taken in specific consideration, in the Latin translation included in the Collatio. In this passage is narrated the particular case of the Tselofchad’s daughters, who were allowed to inherit by their father. Also the verses of Deuteronomium (21:15–17) about the privilege of the first-born (bekhor), the dispositions of the Baba Bathra treaty of Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud and the expositions offered in the De vita Moysis of Philo Alexandrinus are studied. In the essay, these sources are compared with the legal responsa dedicated, in the title, to the roman system of successio ab intestato, and demonstrate the great differences between the Jewish and Roman rules of inheritance mortis causa. These factual data are in contrast with the unreal image of a similitude or analogy (never existed in the reality) between the two systems that is reported in the Lex Dei for an ideological purpose.

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