Note 244 — Book VII.
John Beames translation
“If the goods of the defunct are not sufficient for payment of his Debts, by the Law, his Heir should pay the same of his own proper goods.” (Reg. Maj. L. 2. c. 39.) This Rule was soon altered. Quatenus, says Bracton, ad ipsum pervenerit, scilicet, de hereditate defuncti et non ultra, nisi velit de gratia, et si nihil multo fortius. (See Bracton 61. a. Fleta L. 2. c. 57. s. 10.) Notandum est, quod nullus de antecessoris debito tenetur respondere ultra valorem quod de ejus hereditate dignoscitur possidere. (Le Grand Cust. de Norm. c. 88.)