Nullum testamentum

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The term nullum testamentum is an old legal principle of inheritance law. According to this, there could only be inheritance within the family of the testator . This principle did not allow wills that allow inheritance outside the family.

The formulation is based on the following sentence of Germania about the private life of the Teutons: "heredes tamen successoresque sui cuique liberi, et nullum testamentum."

literature

  • Tacitus : Germania.
  • Gmür / Roth: Outline of German legal history . 13th edition. Franz Vahlen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8006-3855-0 .
  • Sike Pettinger: Preservation of assets and securing the continuation of the company through dispositions due to death: A study of the early modern Augsburg period . Hopf, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0076-5 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Germania 20, 5.
  2. ^ Translation by Gottwein. Retrieved February 6, 2016.