Note 204 — Book VII.
John Beames translation
The Regiam Majestatem lays it down, that a man cannot give any part of his Inheritance to his illegitimate Son. (L. 2. c. 19.) The Grand Norman Custumary also expressly denies the validity of a gift, sale, delivery, or pledge, by a Father, to his illegitimate Son of any part of the former’s hereditary Estate, adding that it might be impeached within a year and a day after the Father’s decease. (Le Grand Custum. de Norm. c. 36.) We must recollect that both these celebrated works were posterior to Glanville—the Law, therefore, had, in the point now before us, undergone some alteration in the intervening period.