Inheritance: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	succession

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Mosaic portrait of Emperor Justinian I with a jeweled crown and halo, from the 6th-century Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy.

Nobel, Alfred Bernhard: will

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Eduard Gans

German jurist