Note 182 — Chapter VIII · THE TRIBAL CUSTOMS OF THE OLDEST SCANDINAVIAN LAWS.
Reading edition
The following is from the Venedotian Code, i. p. 179. ‘The ecclesiastical law says that no son is to have the patrimony but the eldest born to the father by the married wife: the law of Howell, however, adjudges it to the youngest son as well as to the oldest (i.e. all the sons), and decides that sin of the father or his illegal act is not to be brought against a son as to his patrimony.’ Bastards were not excluded till the Statute of Rothllan.