The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . EPT AUGUST, AND NO DEVISEE SHALL POSSESS AN ESTATE EXCEPTBY AN ADJUDICATION OF THE COURT. XV. IF ANY MAN SHALL CONTROVERT THE TITLE OF ANOTHER, TO WHOM AN•INHERITANCE OR AN HEIRESS HAS BEEN ADJUDGED, LET HIM CITE HIS AD-VERSARY BEFORE THE ARCHON, AS IN OTHER CAUSES. THE DEMANDANTSSHALL DEPOSIT A STATED SUM AS A PLEDGE OF PROSECUTION, AND, IFTHERE BE NO CITATION, THE JUDGEMENT SHALL BE REVERSED. IF THEPERSON, TO WHOM THE ESTATE WAS ADJUDGED, BE DEAD, HIS HEIR MAYBE IMPLEADED IN THE SAME FORM, PROVIDED THAT
The speeches of Isaeus in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens . EPT AUGUST, AND NO DEVISEE SHALL POSSESS AN ESTATE EXCEPTBY AN ADJUDICATION OF THE COURT. XV. IF ANY MAN SHALL CONTROVERT THE TITLE OF ANOTHER, TO WHOM AN•INHERITANCE OR AN HEIRESS HAS BEEN ADJUDGED, LET HIM CITE HIS AD-VERSARY BEFORE THE ARCHON, AS IN OTHER CAUSES. THE DEMANDANTSSHALL DEPOSIT A STATED SUM AS A PLEDGE OF PROSECUTION, AND, IFTHERE BE NO CITATION, THE JUDGEMENT SHALL BE REVERSED. IF THEPERSON, TO WHOM THE ESTATE WAS ADJUDGED, BE DEAD, HIS HEIR MAYBE IMPLEADED IN THE SAME FORM, PROVIDED THAT THE LIMITED TIME BENOT EXPIRED. LET THE SUIT PROCEED BEFORE THE ARCHON IN THE SAME-MANNER AS THE CLAIM WAS AT FIRST MADE BY THE POSSESSOR OF THE IN-HERITANCE IN DISPUTE. The Athenians made no difference between the tranfmiifion of real and perfonalpro-perty : in thefe laws, therefore, and in the following fpeeches, the words devife, heir,.inheritak^e, and the like, are applied both to lands and to goods, without being reftrainedto the peculiar fenfe in which we ufe them. THE. C ? 1 THE SPEECHES OF I S J£ US, SPEECH THE FIRST. On the Eftate of Cleonymus. /cc P< tol- T ? ? A R G U ? ? ? ?. POLYARCHUS left three fons, Cleonymus, Dinias, and the father ofthole, for whom Ifaeus compofed the foil•-wing fpeech. The third fon dying,his children were committed to the guardianlhip of Dinias. Thefe youngmen were heirs to Cleonymus by the laws of Athens, and their grandfatherhad appointed them fuccelfors to their uncle, if he ihould die had, however, a power to difpofe of his property; and, in a fit ofanger againil his brother Dinias for fome real or imagined wrong, had madea will in favour of two remoter kinfmen, Diodes and Pofidippus ; which,according to the cuftom of the Athenians, he had depofited with one of themagiftrates: but, after the death of Dinias, he took his nephews under hiscare, and determined to cancel the will, by which they were difinh
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