That institution of the law of inheritance which, in order to preserve the family and to enhance its renown by means of substitutiolls and family testamentary trusts,s either favours the sons by excluding the daughters from inheritance or favours the eldest son by excluding the remaining children (or allows any other kind ofinequality to arise) on the one hand infringes the principle of the freedom of property (see, and on the other depends on an arbitrariness which in and for itself has no right to recognition or more precisely, it depends on the intention to uphold not so much this family, as this kinship group or house.