Table IV: Patria Potestas: rights of Head of Family

Quickly kill... a dreadfully deformed child.
If a father thrice surrender a son for sale, the son shall be free from the father.
A child born ten months after the father's death will not be admitted itno a legal inheritance.

Table V: Guardianship; Succession

Females shall remain in guardianship even when they have attained their majority... except Vestal Virgins.
Conveyable possessions of a woman under guardianship of agnates cannot be rightfully acquired by usucapio [see note ⁹], save such possessions as have been delivered up by her with a guardian's sanction.
According as a person shall will regarding his [household], chattels, or guardianship of his estatte, this shall be binding.
If a person dies intestate, and has no self-successor,¹⁰ the nearest agnate kinsman shall have possession of deceased's household.
If there is no agnate kinsman, deceased's clansmen shall have possession of his household.
To persons for whom a guardian has not been appointed by will, to them agnates are guardians.
If a man is raving mad, rightful authority over his person and chattels shall belong to his agnates or to his clansmen.
A spendthrift is forbidden to exercise administration over his own goods.... A person who, being insane or a spendthrift, is prohibited from administering his own goods shall be under trusteeship of agnates.
The inheritance of a Roman citizen-freedman shall be made over to his patron if the freedman has died intestate and without self-successor.
Items which are int he category of debts are not included in the division when they have with automatic right been divided into portions of an inheritance.
Debt bequeathed by inheritance is divided proportionally amongst each heir with automatic liability when the details have been investigated.

¹⁰ A person under the legal power of the head of the household.