Patron
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Institutes of Roman Law (English)
It is thus apparent that the external heirs of a patron are entirely excluded from the rights which the law confers on the patron himself, whether a freedman die intestate or it is a question of the freedman’s will being set aside by the praetor in favour of the patron.
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The former master of a freed slave, entitled by the Twelve Tables, the praetor's edict, and the lex Papia Poppaea to a share of the freedman's or freedwoman's estate.
At a still later period the lex Papia Poppaea augmented the rights of the patron against the estate of more opulent freedmen.
For by the law of the Twelve Tables the inheritance of a freedman only devolved on his patron when he died intestate and without leaving a self-successor.
Although a daughter of a patron, a granddaughter by a son, a great-granddaughter by a grandson by a son have under the statute of the Twelve Tables identical rights with the patron, the praetorian edict only calls the male issue to the succession: