The law of next-of-kin succession
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On the Estate of Astyphilus (Greek)
for then anyone who might claim the estate either as next-of-kin or as legatee could be easily convicted of false pretences.
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On the Estate of Astyphilus
The Athenian legal principle that, absent a valid will or adoption, an estate passes to the nearest surviving kin, invoked by the speaker as brother of Astyphilus.
for then anyone who might claim the estate either as next-of-kin or as legatee could be easily convicted of false pretences.
Do not, therefore, gentlemen, give Astyphilus an adopted son whom he himself never in his life adopted, but confirm in my favor the laws which you yourselves enacted;
On the Estate of Hagnias
The Athenian statutory scheme (ἀγχιστεία) governing which relatives, in what order and degree, inherit an estate that lacks direct heirs.
If these fail, it gives the right of succession as next-of-kin to the third degree, namely, first cousins on the father's side including their children.
Law [If there is no relative on the father's side as far as the degree of the children of cousins, then the right of inheritance passes to the mother's side in the same order of succession.
Mark you, gentlemen, the legislator did not say that, in default of heirs on the father's side up to the degree of cousin's children, the rights descend to the latter's children;