Chapter 2

Transmissions of rights which change their subject but not their form

Article 1

How rights pass without any alteration from one subject to another through abandonment and successive occupation

§1

Right when simply abandoned and reoccupied

§2

Right as transmitted within a moral body when the individual members enter or leave the body

§3

Intestate succession

A.

Succession within marriage

B.

Succession in the case of sons and daughters

C.

Succession further extended as long as a family society exists

D.

Succession amongst blood-related families

§4

Succession through an act of will on the part of the one who dies

A.

The right to decide who should possess ones goods after ones death in the absence of a natural successor

I.

Successory pacts

II.

Wills

a) Quasi-contracts in general

b) Wills

B.

The right to decide who should have ones goods after death in the case of heirs who otherwise would nat-urally succeed

I.

Historical considerations

II.

The extension of the right to make a will contrary to the order of natural succession

a) Relative to peculia

b) Relative to other goods of the head of the household; to the disadvantage of other members of the family

c) Relative to kindred who are not in the family

Article 2

How rights pass from one subject to another without undergoing any alteration by way of contract

§1

Various possible alterations to rights

§2

What is needed in order to say that a right has changed its subject without undergoing alteration

§3

Contracts by which rights are transmitted without alteration

Article 3

How obligations corresponding to rights change their subject