A Topic of Moral Theology
Legal Succession or Succession Ab Intestato
Succession where there is no will: who inherits, who is excluded, and what conscience follows.
The works themselves ask 2 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
dying without a will · inheritance when there is no will (ed.)
In the index as Testamentary heirs · Legal succession · Collation · A testator · Acceptance · Benefit of inventory · Brothers, sisters · Children · Debts · Donation · Exheredation · Fisc, that is, the public treasury or tax authority · Heir · Illegitimate children · Insurance · Inventory · Legatees · Legitimate portion · Moral person · Order · Partition of inheritance · Rescission · Succession · Wife
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. VII, Sect. I, Ch. I, Art. II, § III, Point V, III. On Legal Succession or Succession Ab Intestato, n. 825 — I. When the owner of goods has died without a legitimate testament, de facto those can be heirs whom civil law assigns. II. Who come in the first place, who in the second, etc., likewise learn from the law of one's count… Read in context →
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Virtue of Justice (…, Part II — Chapter II: On Contracts in Particular, nn. 727, 728 & 729 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. I, Q. IV, Ch. II, Art. I, § 2, 4. On Presumed Donation, or Intestate Succession, nn. 280, 281 & 282 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Special Moral Theology: On…, Treatise: On the Cardinal …, Third Part: Concerning Com…, Sect. C, Ch. II, Question Five: On Legal Succession, nn. 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509 & 510 (48 passages — hover a number to read it)
The Decretals of Gregory IX (Liber Extra)
Bk. III, Title XXVII: On Intestate Successions, cc. 1, 2 & 3 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Wills — Noldin, Summa of Moral Theology · Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Concina, Compendium · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · The Casuist · Liber Sextus — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)