[Footnote 157: Of the civil jurisprudence of successions,
testaments, codicils, legacies, and trusts, the principles
are ascertained in the Institutes of Caius, (l. ii. tit. ii.
- ix. p. 91 - 144,) Justinian, (l. ii. tit. x. - xxv.,) and
Theophilus, (p. 328 - 514;) and the immense detail occupies
twelve books (xxviii. - xxxix.) of the Pandects.]