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Lex Falcidia

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The Falcidian law; a law passed on the motion of the tribune 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 to the heir.

Inst. 2, 22; Heinecc.

Elem. lib.

2, tit. 22.