PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 323 
are then laid down as to which person is entitled to receive 
this payment. In the note to this law in the Pactus there is 
a convenient diagram, of which I avail myself to explain the 
points which I desire to make. But to adapt it to my purpose 
I have rearranged the order of the persons referred to, and I 
have numbered them for convenient reference. 
DIAGRAM I. 
(1) Avuneulus ... (2) Mater (3) Soror 
viduse viduie matris vidue 
| 
(4) Frater (5) Vidua (6) Soror (7) Consobrina 
mariti viduxe 
prioris (8) Maritus | 
prior 
(9) Nepos... (10) Neptis (11) Filius 
filius, 
senior 
(12) Filius, 
senior 
The following is the sequence in which the right to the 
Reippus runs consecutively : — 
(1) the nephew (9), being the eldest son of the widow’s 
sister (6). 
(2) The eldest son (12) of the daughter (10) of the widow’s 
sister (6). 
(3) The son (11) of the female cousin (7) of the widow on 
the mother’s side. 
(4) The brother (1) of the widow’s mother. 
(5) The brother (4) of the widow’s deceased husband, pro- 
vided he had not inherited the property of the deceased. 
(6) Failing these, he who was nearest after the above-named 
in the given order of relationship, down to the sixth “joint” 
(grade) if he have not come into the inheritance of the 
deceased. 
(7) Failing all these, the Reippus is to go to the King’s purse. 
It is quite evident that in this matter the female line is 
preferred, and is followed down to the utmost limit, to which 
the Teutonic tribes counted their relationships. To make this 
clear, I must explain the manner in which it was done (e). 
The complete generation commenced with the parents, and 
the method of counting the relations was by using the joints 
of the body as grades, beginning with the head, at which the 
parents were placed. The complete enumeration on this basis 
was as follows :— 
b(e) ‘Der Sachsenspiegel,’’ A. Luebben, Oldenburg, 1879. After the ‘* Codex” pic- 
turatus of 1336 
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