Lex Falcidia
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Romanlaw. The Falcidian law; a law passed on the motion of thetribune P, Falcidius, A. U. C. 713, forbidding a testator to give more in legacies than three-fourths of all his estate, or, in other words, requiring him to leave at least one-fourth tothe heir.
Inst.2,22; Heinecc.
Elem. lib.
2, tit. 22..
Lex favet doti.
Jenk. Cent. 50.
The law favors dower. Lex fingit ubi subsistit equitas.
11 Coke, 90.
The law makes use of a fiction where equity subsists.