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AMELOTTI, Mario
Le forme classiche di testamento. Lezioni di diritto romano, raccolte da Remo Martini.
Turin: Giappichelli, 1966 - .

Il testamento romano attraverso la prassi documentale. I Le forme classiche di testamento. Studi e testi di papirologia editi dall'Istituto papirologico G Vitelli di Firenze...   Florence: Le Monnier, 1966.
[The standard work on the classical Roman testamentary practice, with several examples of wills -- both Latin and Greek -- appended.]

AMOS, Sheldon
The History and Principles of the Civil Law of Rome.
London: Keegan, Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883.
[See Part II, Chapter V, "Succession", especially pp.319-342 on wills.]

APPLETON, Charles
Le testament romain, la methode du droit compare et l'authenticite des XII tables.
Paris: Fontemoing, 1903.
[A critical exmination of Lambert's La tradition romaine; infra.]

ARANGIO-RUIZ, Vincenzo
"Documenti testamentarii latini della collezione di Michigan."
Journal of Juristic Papyrology  (1950) 117-123.
[Attempts to reconstruct several ancient texts in the Michigan collection.]

"Il testamento di Antonio Silvano e il Senato consulto di Nerone."
Studi Albertario  (1950) 203 ff.; also printed in Studi epigrafici e papirologici, Naples: Giannini Editore, 1974; 382-389.

"Intorno alla forma scritta del "testamentum per aes et libram".
Atti del Congresso ... Verona 3 (1953) 81 ff.

La successione testamentaria secondo i papiri greco-egizii.
Naples: L. Pierro, 1906.

ARCHI
"Oralita e scrittura nel testamentum per aes et libram."
In Studi De Francisci, vol. 4, Milan, 1954.

BACCARI, Renato
Le disposizioni di ultima volonta nel diritto canonico.
Bari: F. Caducci, 1954.

BARBIERI, Emilio
"Caduca e testamento."
In Studi in onore di Pietro Bonfante, Milan: Fratelli Treves Edition, 1930; Vol. 4, 565-598.
[Concerns legal questions over deceased heirs in Roman Law.]

BIEZUNSKA-MALOWIST, I. M.
L'Esclavage dans L'Egypte greco-romaine, second partie: Periode romaine.
Archiwum filologiczne - Polska Akademia Nauk, Komitet Nauk o Kulturze Antycznej. Wroclaw: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich,   1977.
[Uses wills as sources in study of Roman-era slavery.]

BRUCK, Eberhard Friedrich
Cicero vs. the Scaevolas; re: Law of inheritance and decay of Roman religion.
Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 1945.
[Seminar paper first published in Jurist 3 (1945). Discusses De legibus II 19-21.]

Foundations for the Deceased in Roman Law, Religion and Political Thought.
Milan: Societa editrice "Vita e pensiero", 1949.
[Includes discussion of the fideicommisum.]

Die Schenkung auf den Todesfall im griechischen und roemischen Recht, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Testaments.  Breslau: M & H Marcus, 1909.

Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Testamentsvollstreckung im roemischen Recht.
Vienna: A. Holder, 1914.

BIONDI, Biondo
Successione testamentaria e donazioni.2nd ed.
Milan: Giuffre, 1955.
[Discussion of Roman law.]

BRUNS, Carl G.
Fontes iuris romani antiqui.
Tuebingen: P. Siebeck, 1909.
[See documents #117 - 123: testaments from 1st and 2nd centuries; texts in Latin and Greek.]

BURDESE, Alberto
Manuale di Diritto privato romano.
Turin: Unione Tipografico - Editrice Torinese, 1987.
[On historical and contemporary Roman law of wills see pp.645-723.

CALORE, Antonello
La rimozione del giuramento: condicio iurisiurandi e condicio turpis nel testamento romano.
Milan: Giuffre, 1988.

CAMUS, Emilio Fernandez
Derecho hereditario; historia y legislacion comparada.
La Habana: J. Montero, 1937.

CHAMPLIN, Edward
Final Judgments: Duty and emotion in Roman wills, 200 BC - AD 250.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
[Studies corpus of known Roman wills for period.]

CHEHATA, Chafik
"Le testament dans l'Egypt pharaonique."
Revue de l'histoire de Droit francaise et etranger  (1954) 1-22.

CLARYSSE, Willy
"Three Soldiers' Wills in the Petrie Collection: A re-edition."
Ancient Society  2 (1971) 7 - 20.
[Will texts in Greek and English translation, from Egypt, 235 - 6 BC]

CROOK, John A.
"Intestacy in Roman Society."
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society  19 (1973) 38 - 44.
[Attacks the conclusions of Daube; see entry below.]

"Legal Point on Marc Antony's Will."
Journal of Roman Studies  47 (1957) 36-38.
[Discusses Suetonius' account of the will.]

"Women in Roman Succession."
In The family in Ancient Rome: New perspectives, ed. by Beryl Rawson, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986; 58 - 82.

D'ORS, A.
"Testamentum porcelli."
Supplementos de "Estudios clasicos, #3 (1953) 74 - 83.

DAUBE,
"The Preponderance of Intestacy at Rome."
Tulane Law Review  39 (1965) 253 ff.

DESSERTEAUX, Fernand
"Des effets, en droit prive, de la restitutio du condamne a la servitude penale ou la deportation."
Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis  7 (1927) 281 - 313.
[See Section 2, "Testament et codicille", 286 - 292.]

DEUTSCH, Hermann
Die Vorlauefer der heutigen Testamentsvollstrecker im roemischen Recht.
Berlin: R.L. Prager, 1899.

DI LELLA, Luigi
Querela inofficiosi testamenti. Contributo allo studio della successione necessaria.
Naples: E. Jovene, 1972.

DONATUTI, Guido
"L'Origine della querella inofficiosae donationis."
In Studi in onore di Salvatore Riccobono, Palermo: Artigrafiche G. Castiglia, 1936; Vol. 3, 425 - 433.
[Discussion of Arangio-Ruiz's ideas about the "querella inofficiosae donationis."]

DROPSIE, Moses A.
Roman Law of Testaments, Codicils and Gifts in the Event of Death.
Philadelphia: T & J. W. Johnson and Co., 1892; reprinted Littleton, CO: F.B. Rothman, 1996.
[Early but clear and fundamental guide to the Corpus juris civilis on relevant matters.]

DULCKEIT, Gerhard
Erblasserwille und Erwerbswille bei antretung der Erbschaft; Beitraege zum Willensprobelm im klassischen romanischen Erbrecht.  Weimar: H. Bohlaus, 1934.

FERRARI, Giannino
"Papiri ravennati dall'epoca giustinianea relativi all'apertura di testamenti."
In Studi in onore di Pietro Bonfante, Milan: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1930; Vol. 2, 630 - 644.
[Studies specific documents from sixth-century Ravenna.]

GIRARD, Paul
Manual Elementaire de Droit Romain.
Paris: Rousseau et Cie., 1929.
[See pages 848-922 on law of succession, and pp. 848 - 892 on wills.]

GIUFFRE, Vincenzo
Documenti testamentari romani.
Milano: A. Giuffre, 1974.

GROSSO, Giuseppe
I legati nel diritto romano. 2nd edition.
Turin: Giapicchelli, 1962.

"In tema di divergenza fra volonta e dichiarazione nel testamento."
In Studi in onore di Salvatore Riccobono, Palermo: Artigrafiche G. Castiglia, 1936; Vol. 3, 163 - 173.
[Discusses questions arising from discrepancies in statements in wills made under early Roman law.]

"Sulla 'falsa demonstratio' nelle disposizioni d'ultima volonta."
In Studi in oonore di Pietro Bonfante, Milan: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1930; Vol. 2, 185 - 216.

GUARINO, Antonio
Diritto privato romano. 7th edition.
Naples: Editore Jovene, 1984.
[On laws of succession, see pp. 382 - 437.]

"La scrittura nel testamentum per aes et librum."
In Studi in onore di Ugo Paoli, Florence: Le Monnier, 1955; 377 ff.

GUERARD, O. and P. JOUGUET
"Un testament Latin per aes et librum de 142 apres J.-C."
Etudes de Papyrologie (Societe Fouad 1er de papyrologie) 6 (1940) 1 - 21
[Latin will text printed and discussed.]

HANNAN, Jerome D.
The Canon Law of Wills: An historical synopsis and commentary.
Philadelphia: Dolhin Press, 1935.

HELLWIG, Hans
Erbrechtsfeststellung und Rescission des Erbschaftserwerbes; Beitraege zur Lehre von der querela inofficiosi testamenti des klassischen roemischen Rechtes.  Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1908.

HOLDER, Eduard
Beitraege zur Geschichte des romischen Erbrechtes.
Erlangen: A. Deichert, 1881.

IMMEL, Gerhard
"Oeffentliches testament und Procurator. Ein Streitfrage aus dem usus modernus pandectarum."
Ius commune. Veroffentlichungen d. Max-Planck-Instituts fuer europaeische Rechtsgeschichte 1 (1967) 223 - 240.

INFANTES FLORIDO, J. A.
"San Augustin y la cuota de libre disposicion, interpretacion de Graciano."
Anuario de Historia del Derecho Espanol  30 (1960) 89 - 112.
[Discusses St. Augustine's influence on the canon law of inheritance and wills.]

JOHN, Uwe
Die Auslegung des Legats von Sachgesamtheiten im roemischen Recht bis Labeo.
Karlruhe: C.F. Mueller, 1970.

JOHNSON, D.
"Munificence and municipia: Bequests to towns in classical Roman law."
Journal of Roman Studies  75 (19985) 105 - 125.
[This practice reached its apex in the 2nd century AD, then fell off: why and how?]

JOHNSON, John Robert
"A Note on Caesar's Military Will: Why was it a concessio temporalis?
Labeo 27 (1981) 335 - 338.
[On the Roman soldier's right to make a will, which was first granted by Julius Caesar.]

KASER, Max
Das Roemische Privatrecht. Erster Abschnitt. Das altroemische, das vorklassische und klassische Recht.
Munich: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.
[See pages 668 - 713, "Erbrecht".]

Das Roemische Privatrecht. Zweitr Abschnitt. Die nachklasischen Entwicklungen.
Munich: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1959.
[See pages 334 - 398, "Erbrecht".]

KIRKPATRICK, John, ed.
Studies in Roman Law with Comparative Views of the laws of France, England and Scotland, by Lord MacKenzie.
London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1886.
[Part IV covers succession by testament; see also subsection iii on English and Scots law.]

LAMBERT, Edouard
La tradition romaine sur la succession des formes du testament devant l'histoire comparative.
Paris: V. Girard & E. Briere, 1901.
[Compares aspects of Roman law with parallels in the Germanic laws with which it interacted.]

LAMBERT, Jacques
La regle catonienne.
Paris: M. Giard, 1925.
[Discussion of early Roman laws of heredity and legacy.]

LE BOHEC, Yann, et al.
Centre d'Etudes Romaines et Gallo-Romaines de l'Universite de Lyon, III: Le testament du Lignon.
Lyon: Diffusion de Boccard, 1991.
[Will printed in Latin with French trans. and photos of ms.; also several short essays on the will (not listed separately in this bibliography).]

LEMEL, Otto
"Zur Geschichte der heredis instituto."
Labeo 12 (1966) 358 - 374.

LIEBENTHAL, Werner
Ursprunge unt Entwicklung des roemischen Testaments in den Grundzugen.
Berlin: Hermann, 1914.

LOUIS, Alfred
"Testament d'un Langrois a l'epoque de la domination romaine."
Bulletin de  la Societe historique et archeologique de Langres  2 (180) 251 - 274.
[Latin text of the testament of a "rich citizen" (Lingon) is printed in full.]

MACQUERON, Jean
"Le senatus-consulte Neronien et le caractere secret du testament."
Revue historique de droit francais et etranger  36 (1957) 459-475.

"Le testament d'Antonius Silvanus."
Revue historique de droit francais et etranger  23 (1945) 123-170.

MANZ, Kaspar
Tractatus absolutissimus de testamento valido vel invalido (c.1660).
Bologna: C. Gamberini, 1843 (reprint).

MARRONE, Matteo
"`Praeteritio', `exheridatio', Querela in officiosi testamenti'."
Labeo 19 (1973) 358-365.

`Querela inofficiosi testamenti'. Lezioni di diritto romano.
Palermo: Universita Manfredi, 1962.

MARTOS CALABRUS, Maria Angustias
Aproximacion historica a las solemnidades del testamento publico.
Almeria: Universidad de Almeria, 1998.
[History of testamentary practice.]

MESSINA VITRANO, Filippo
"La convertibilita del modo eretto su legato o fedecommesso nel diritto romano classico e giustinianeo."
Studi Riccobono III (1936) 97-110.

L'elemento della liberalita e la natura del legato nel diritto romano classico e giustinianeo.
Palermo: Sculo Tip. "Boccone del Povero," 1914.

MEYER, Elizabeth Anne
"Literacy, Literate Practice, and the Law in the Roman Empire, A.D. 100 - 600."
Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1988.
[Uses Roman wills of the period.]

MIGLIARDI ZINGALE, Livia
"Note a nuovi documenti testamentari romani."
Anagenesis 2 (1982) 109 ff.

I testamenti romani nei papiri e nelle tavolette d'Egitto. Silloge di documenti dal I al IV secolo d.C.
Torino: G. Giappichelli, 1988; Rev, 2nd ed., 1991.
[First edition prints 29 wills in Greek with Italian translations; no introduction.]

MOMMSEN, Theodor, Alan WATSON and Paul KRUGER
The Digest of Justinian. 4 vols.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1985.
[On wills see Volumes 2 and 3;; includes glossary.]

MONTEVECCHI, Orsolina
La papirologia.
Turin: Societa editrice internazionale, 1973.
[On wills see esp. pp. 207 ff.]

MURGA GENER, Jose Luis
Donaciones y testmentos "in bonum animae" en el Derecho romana tardio.
Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 1968.

"El testamento en favor de Jesucristo y de los santos en el Derecho romano postclasico y justiniano."
Anuario de historia del Derecho espanol 35 (1965) 357 - 419.
[Patristic and legal considerations of the 4th through 6th centuries.]

NARDI, Enzo
"La sistematica della indegnita a succedere."
Labeo 31 (1985) 337 - 341.
[Review of Reimundo's 1983 book.]

NAZ, R.
"Testament."
Dictionnaire de Droit canonique. Paris: Librairie Letouzey et Ane, 1965; Vol. 7, cols. 1190 - 1206.
[General historical article from ecclesiastical viewpoint.]

NEGRI, Giovanni
La clausola codicillare nel testamento inofficioso: saggi storico-giuristici.
Milan: Giuffre, 1975.

NISOLI, Enrico
Die Testamentseroffnung im roemischen Recht.
Bern: Buchdruckerei Weinfelden, 1949.

PADOVANI, A.
"Le fondemente giuridiche del testamento nella dottrina medioevale."
In Actes a cause de mort, II, 173-196.
[Discusses legal evolution of the will to the 18th century.]

PAULUS, Christoph
Die Idee der post mortalen Persoenlichkeit im reomischen testamentsrecht: Zur gesellschaftlichen und rechtlichen Bedeutung einzelner Testamentsklauseln.Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte, 55.Belin: Duncker und Humblot, 1992.

PRITCHARD, A.M., ed.
Leage's Private Roman Law Founded on the Institutes of Gaius and Justinian.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961.
[See Part 4, "The Law of Universal Succession," pp.235-306.]

REIMUNDO, Benito Maria
La sistematicizacion de la indegnidad para suceder segun el derecho romano clasico, I.
Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, 1983.

RENIER, E.
Etude sur l'histoire de la querela inofficiosi en droit romain.
Liege: Vaillant-Carmanne, 1942.

ROBBE, Ubaldo
La "hereditas iacet" e il significato dell''hereditas" in diritto romano.
Milan: Giuffre, 1975.
[Reviewed in Labeo 22 (1976) 96-7.]

ROMANO, Angela
"Diritto e prassi nelle forme testamentarie."
Labeo 33 (1987) 221 - 225.
[Review of Serangeli (infra)]

ROYER, Clement de
Du droit de disposer par testament: legislations anciennes, legislation romaine, legislation francaise.
Paris: Typographie de Henri Plon, 1870.

SALLER, Richard P.
"Roman Heirship Strategies in Principle and in Practice."
In The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present, ed. by R.P. Saller and David I. Kertzer, Hew Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, pp. 26 - 47.
[Discusses the various kinds of forces that shaped the testamentary practices of the Romans, especially in the Imperial period.]

SAMPER POLO, Francisco
"La disposicion `mortis causa' en el Derecho romano vulgar."
Anuario de historia del Derecho espanol 38 (1968) 87 - 227.
[Lengthy discussion of wills and pseudo-testamentary documents in Roman and Germano-Roman law. See esp. Chapter 1.A on testaments.]

SALVO, Settimio di
Il legato modale nel diritto romano: Elaborazione dommatiche e realta sociali.
Naples: Jovene, 1973.

SCHULIN, Philipp Friedrich
Das griechische Testament vergleichen mit dem roemischen.
Basel: Schultzesche Universitaets-Buchdruckerei, 1882.

SCHULZ, Fritz, ed.
Die Epitome ulpiani des Codex Vaticanus reginae 1128.
Bonn: A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1926.

SERANGELI, Sandro
Studi sulla revoca del testamento in diritto romano: Contributo allo studio delle forme testamentarie. Vol. I.
Milan: Giuffre, 1982.
[Excellent overview of sources, major issues, etc. See esp. pages 1 and 2, note 4 for bibliography on testamentary revocation in Roman Law.]

SOLAZZI, Siro
"Unum testamentum duarum hereditatm."
Labeo 1 (1955) 190 - 194.
[Discusses an oddity.]
 

TAMASSIA, Nino
"Testamentum militis e diritto germanico."
Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, lettere ed arti 86 (1927) 1457 - 1548.
[Discusses early medieval developments in the law of will-making.]

TELLEGEN, Jan Willem
The Roman Law of Succession in the Letters of Pliny the Younger.
Zutphen: Uitgeverij Terra, 1982.
[Studes closely and discusses excerpts from fifteen letters of the first century A.D.]

TELLEGEN-COUPERUS, Olga E.
Testamentary Succession in the Constitutions of Diocletian.
Zutphen: Uitgeverij Terra, 1982.
[Covers a wide range of issues from capacity to make a will to its form, contents and restrictions in the fourth century.Latin texts are translated, but no wills are printed.]

THEODORIDES, Aristide
"Le testament dans l'Egypte, anciene."
Revue International des Droits de l'Antiquite  (1970)  117 - 216.

THOMAS, J. A. C.
Textbook of Roman Law.
New York: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1976.
[See Part VI, "The Law of Succession;" pp. 479 - 528.

TJADER, Jan-Olof
Die nichtliterarischen lateinischen papyri italiens aus der Zeit 445-700.
Skrifter Utgivna av svenska institutet I Rom. Vol.19, part 1. Upsala, 1955.
[See "Testamente" (pp. 190 - 224). Prints Ravenese texts from 3rd through mid-sixth centuries, with extensive commentary.]

VERALLI, Alessandro
Limiti legali della liberta di testare: Studio sul diritto romano e sul codice civile d'Italia.
Naples: Tipografia della Regia Universita, 1881.

VOCI, Pasquale
Diritto ereditario romano. 2 vols. 2nd edition.
Milan: Giuffre, 1962; 1967.
[The standard work on the subject in Italian. Reviewed by Vincenzo Giuffre in Labeo 11 (1965) 87 - 94.]

"Testamento pretorio."
Labeo 13 (1967) 319 - 348.
[Discusses a type of will different form the per aes et libram.]

"Il testamento romano attraverso la prassi documentale."
Labeo 13 (1967) 86 - 95.
[Overview of contents of Amelotti's 1966 book, Le forme classiche...]

VON GLANVELL, V. Wolf
Die letztwilligen Verfuegungen nach gemeinem kirchlichen Rechte.
Paderborn: F. Schoeningh, 1900.
[Canon law on willmaking.]

WATSON, Alan
"D.28.35(44): An unpricipled decision on a will."
In his Studies in Roman Private Law, London: The Hambledon Press, 1991, pp.161 - 175.
[Study of a judicial decision that seemes to go counter to the terms of a will.]

"The Identity of Serapio, Socrates, Longus and Nilus in the Will of C. Longinus Castor."
In his Studies in Roman Private Law, London: The Hambledon Press, 1991, pp. 55 - 58.
[Portions of Greek will text printed. Caranis, Egypt, A.D.187. Study of these men listed in the text.]

The Law of Succession in the Later Roman Republic.
Oxford Clarendon Press, 1971.
[Full overview; standard treatment in English.]

Roman Slave Law.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
[On manumission through testament, see pp. 25 - 28, 35 - 38.]

WIEACKER, Franz
Hausgenossenschaft und Erbeinsetzung; ueber die Anfange des roemischen testaments.
Leipzig: T. Weicher, 1940.

WIELING, Hans Josef
Testamentauslegung im roemischen Recht.
Munchener Beitraege zur Papyrusforschung und Antiken Rechtsgeschichte, Vol. 62.
Munich: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchandlung, 1972.
[Covers the period from Augustus to the late classical and Justinian.]

WISTRAND, Erik and Karl HILDING
Arv och testamenten i romarnas sociala liv.
Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, 72.
Goteborg: Almqvist & Wiskell, 1966.
[With summary in German.]

ZINGALE, Migliardi
"Note a nuovi documenti testamentari romani."
Anagennesis 2 (1982) 109 ff.