of wills, but required the following conditions in all persons that
made them:--

1st. That they must be citizens of Athens, not slaves, or foreigners,
for then their estates were confiscated for the public use.

2nd. That they must be men who have arrived to twenty years of age,
for women and men under that age were not permitted to dispose by will
of more than one _medimn_ of barley.

3rd. That they must not be adopted; for when adopted persons died
without issue, the estates they received by adoption returned to the
relations of the men who adopted them.

4th. That they should have no male children of their own, for then
their estate belonged to these. If they had only daughters, the
persons to whom the inheritance was bequeathed were obliged to marry
them. Yet men were allowed to appoint heirs to succeed their children,
in case these happened to die under twenty years of age.

5th. That they should be in their right minds, because testaments
extorted through the phrenzy of a disease, or dotage of old age, were
not in reality the wills of the persons that made them.

6th. That they should not be under imprisonment, or other constraint,
their consent being then only forced, nor in justice to be reputed
voluntary.

7th. That they should not be induced to it by the charms and
insinuations of a wife; for (says Plutarch) the wise lawgiver with