[390] "Nisi promiserit de continuo habitando in dicta civitate, vel comitatu Urbini" ("Statuta Urbini," Pisauri, 1519, ii. 54).
[391] "Liber juris civilis urbis Veronæ," chap. xliv. Verona, 1728.
[392] See Gans, op. cit. This author made a very careful examination of the Pisan law in the statutes (then unpublished) contained in a MS. Codex at Berlin.
[393] Vide the "Consuetudini della città d'Amalfi," edited and annotated by Scipione Volpicella, p. 22; and the "Consuetudini della città di Napoli," under the heading, "De successionibus ab intestato." The same provisions are found also in the "Consuetudini Sorrentine." See also Dr. Otto Hartwig's work, "Codex iuris municipalis Siciliæ." Heft 1, "Das Stadtrecht von Messina." Cassel und Göttingen, 1867.
[394] "Statuta Comunis Mantuæ," Rubric li., "De successionibus ab intestato." Cod. MS. F. T., 1, fourteenth century, Mantua Archives. Similar terms are used in the Veronese statutes ("Statuta Veronæ." Veronæ, 1588, bk. ii. chap. 82). "Ut bona parentum in filios masculos et cæteros per lineam masculinam descendentes conserventur, pro conservandis domibus et oneribus Communis Veronæ sustinendis, statuimus," &c.
[395] "Statuta Florentiæ," ii. 130.
[396] Statutes 4 (of 1324), ii. 70, and 9 (of 1355), ii. 73, in the State Archives, declare in fact that when there are no surviving sons, but only brothers or their sons, the woman is entitled to have the usufruct of her father's, grandfather's, or great-grandfather's estate: "Tunc ipsa mulier habeat usufructum omnium bonorum talis patris, avi, vel proavi defuncti." This is the usufruct for which alimony is afterwards substituted.
[397] State Archives, "Statuti," 4, bk. ii. 50, and 9, bk. ii. 51.
[398] "Statuta Florentiæ," ii. 32.
[399] Ibid. ii. 130.