There were formerly other general successions which antedated the one previously mentioned. To these belonged the purchase of an insolvent estate introduced for the purpose of selling the goods of a debtor, which was attended by numerous formalities and was employed when ordinary judgments were in use; but as, in later times, extraordinary judgments have prevailed the purchase of insolvent estates fell into disuse along with ordinary judgments; and creditors are only permitted to take possession of property by an order of court and to dispose of the same as seems advantageous to them; which will more manifestly appear from the larger Books of the Digest.

(1) There was also a wretched species of general acquisition derived from the Claudian Decree of the Senate, where a free woman frenzied by love for a slave lost her own liberty by this Decree of the Senate, and her property along with it; but We, thinking this to be unworthy of Our times, have determined that it shall be abolished in Our dominions and not be inserted in Our Digest.