Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

lex Voconia

n. [Latin] Roman law. A law regulating inheritance, esp. by women. - Also termed Voconian law. "Lex Voconia Contained several provisions concerned with the law of succession: (1) No woman could be heir ... to an estate having a value greater than a fixed amount . . . . (2) Admitted among female agnates only the sisters of the deceased to intestate succession. (3) No one person - male or female - could receive by legacy more than the heir (or all heirs together) instituted in the last will." Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law 561 (1953).