Imperial Succession Amendment Act, 1718

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Imperial Succession Amendment Act, 1718

Issued and Confirmed by His Imperial Majesty the Holy Orenian Emperor Joseph I Leopold, 16th of Godfrey’s Triumph, 1718

 

The heirs and successors to patrimony must be defined as those persons who can not be disinherited, but by the legally established causes of disinheritance state by the Imperial Codes, which means having the right to receive the legitimate patrimony of their predecessor.

 

Within Section 2, Sub-Section 2, it is stated that “Inheritance within the Holy Orenian Empire, including all fiefdoms and lordly realms excluding dominions, provinces, and military commanderies, follows a semi-absolute agnatic primogeniture”. It is decided now, by Imperial decree and amendment, that the Holy Orenian Empire shall adopt a semi-absolute agnatic-cognatic primogeniture succession, to extend the right of a place in the Imperial succession to his daughters, granddaughters, and any other females of the House of Marna who are eligible to hold a place within the legal line.

 

A further amendment is made by His Imperial Majesty, stating that any female included within the line of Imperial succession that marries and takes the name of her spouse, mothering children who take her husband’s name as well, will be excluded from the legal line as to maintain the line of House Marna and it’s rightful rule in the Holy Orenian Empire. If a female of the House of Marna subsequently marries a man who takes on the name of the Imperial family, she will maintain her place in the succession. This does not extend to her husband, who will be given no right to a Imperial title or place in the succession.

 

In this sense, the Empire identifies as obligatory heirs those listed below:

 

• The male children and male descendants with respect to their parents and male ascendants.

• In the absence of the above, parents and ascendants regarding their male children and male descendants.

• In the absence of the above, the female children, their children and descendants

• In the absence of the above, parents and ascendants regarding their female children and female descendants.

 

Mention should finally be made of the case contemplated that a testator of a will or legacy who, in order to conserve the company or in the interest of his family, wishes to preserve undivided an economic exploitation or maintain control of his legacy thereof, may appoint a ‘manager of estates and patrimony’ to divide the patrimony, providing that their legitimate payment is made to the other interested parties.

 

Therefore, the testator may entrust, for the event of his death or abdication, the power of making the partition of his patrimony to any person who is not one of the co-heirs. In the event of mortis causa inheritance, this capacity will be enacted by a magistrate or judge of the empire.

 

However, it is necessary to consider that the testator of the will or legacy can not deprive the heirs of their legitimate patrimony but in the cases expressly determined by law.  Heirs subject to a condition of the will of the testator are not entitled to partition of the patrimony until this condition is fulfilled. However, co-heirs may request this partition to secure the right of the former should the condition be fulfilled. If the condition is deemed impossible to be fulfilled, this partition of the patrimony shall be divided by the co-heirs.

 

IN NOMINE DEI,

Emperor Joseph I

 

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