Isaeus, On the Estate of Hagnias, Edward Seymour Forster (Translator), 11

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[11] But, it may be asked, how are you to know that I possess the rights of a next-of-kin, while the children of the other cousins, including this child, did not possess them? The law itself will make this clear. It is universally admitted that the rights as next-of-kin belong to cousins on the father's side, including their children, but the point which we have now to examine whether the law grants these rights to our children also. Take, therefore, the law and read it to the court.

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[If there is no relative on the father's side as far as the degree of the children of cousins, then the right of inheritance passes to the mother's side in the same order of succession.]

On the Estate of Hagnias. Isaeus. Edward Seymour Forster (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1962.

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On the Estate of Hagnias (English) (Isaeus. Forster, Edward Seymour, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927 (1962 printing).)

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[11] τῷ δὲ γνώσεσθε τοῦθʼ, ὅτι ἐμοὶ μὲν ἀγχιστεύειν, τοῖς δʼ ἐξ ἐκείνων γεγονόσιν οὐκ ἦν, ἐν οἷς οὗτος ὁ παῖς ἦν; αὐτὸς ὁ νόμος δηλώσει. τὸ μὲν γὰρ εἶναι τὴν ἀγχιστείαν ἀνεψιοῖς πρὸς πατρὸς μέχρι ἀνεψιῶν παίδων ὁμολογεῖται παρὰ πάντων. εἰ δὲ μεθʼ ἡμᾶς δίδωσι τοῖς ἡμετέροις παισί, τοῦτʼ ἤδη σκεπτέον ἐστί. λαβὲ οὖν αὐτοῖς τὸν νόμον καὶ ἀναγίγνωσκε.

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ἐὰν δὲ μηδεὶς ᾖ πρὸς πατρὸς μέχρι ἀνεψιῶν παίδων, τοὺς πρὸς μητρὸς κυρίους εἶναι κατὰ τὰ αὐτά.

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On the Estate of Hagnias

1. This is the only law which is quoted in the manuscripts of Isaeus; it has probably been invented on the basis of the following section.

Isaeus On the Estate of Hagnias 11

Edward Seymour Forster (Translator)

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