[Footnote 150: That succession was the rule, testament the
exception, is proved by Taylor, (Elements of Civil Law, p.
519 - 527, (a learned, rambling, spirited writer. In the
iid and iiid books, the method of the Institutes is
doubtless preposterous; and the Chancellor Daguesseau
(Oeuvres, tom. i. p. 275) wishes his countryman Domat in the
place of Tribonian. Yet covenants before successions is not
surely the natural order of civil laws.]