Affatomy

With Affatomie ( lat. "Adfari") "Ankindung" or "adoption as sons instead" refers to salfränkischem right to see. Tit. 46 Lex salica , a multi-stage process of interrelated legal transactions that included adoption and transfer of ownership by inheritance . The disposer (the testator ) could be granted the use of the subject of disposal (the inheritance ) until his death. The exact legal classification of the business (was it 1. a business under family law or a property-law business and, assuming the latter applies, did this 2. work under inheritance or property law?) Is due to the factual openness of the relevant early medieval source to this day controversial.

The term comes from the form "adfatimire", which is also documented in the Lex Salica manuscripts, i.e. H. received with outstretched arms and press to the breast or pick up in the lap . In other words, a physical inheritance was "created" through this man-made ceremonial act.

literature

Georg Beseler : The grants due to death according to the older German law. Dieterich, Göttingen 1835, especially p. 96 ff.
Andreas Heusler : Institutions of German private law. Leipzig 1886, p. 621 ff.
Clausdieter Schott : Adoption - Adoption - Childhood by choice. Legal history and legal histories. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-8019-5709-4 , pp. 14 ff., 108 ff.
Gerhard Dilcher , Eva-Marie Distler (ed.): Leges - Gentes - Regna. On the role of Germanic legal customs and the Latin writing tradition in the formation of the early medieval legal culture. Schmidt, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-503-07973-4 .
Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand : Affatomie. In: Albrecht Cordes , Heiner Lück , Dieter Werkmüller , Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand (eds.): Concise dictionary on German legal history . 2nd Edition. Volume I, Schmidt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-503-07912-4 , Sp. 1451-1452.
Adrian Schmidt-Recla: Cold or warm hands? Death dispositions in medieval reference law sources. Böhlau, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20735-9 .

Individual evidence

^ Adrian Schmidt-Recla: Mancipatio familiae and Affatomie. Considerations on parallel developments in Roman and Frankish law and on reception conditions in the early Middle Ages. In: Gerhard Dilcher, Eva-Marie Distler (eds.): Leges - Gentes - Regna. On the role of Germanic legal customs and the Latin writing tradition in the formation of the early medieval legal culture. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 461–486. There is also more literature there.
^ Oskar Schade: Old German Dictionary. 2nd Edition. G. Olms, 1969, p. 156.
^ A. Heusler: Institutions of German private law. Leipzig 1886, p. 622.

[1] Adrian Schmidt-Recla: Mancipatio familiae and Affatomie. Considerations on parallel developments in Roman and Frankish law and on reception conditions in the early Middle Ages. In: Gerhard Dilcher, Eva-Marie Distler (eds.): Leges - Gentes - Regna. On the role of Germanic legal customs and the Latin writing tradition in the formation of the early medieval legal culture. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 461–486. There is also more literature there.

[2] Oskar Schade: Old German Dictionary. 2nd Edition. G. Olms, 1969, p. 156.

[3] A. Heusler: Institutions of German private law. Leipzig 1886, p. 622.