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From the collection of Count A.S. Uvarov No. 512 (formerly Tsarskogo No. 366). Published in Historical Acts, vol. Ι, no. 255. Se Az Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Rus'. That Theodosya, Philip’s wife, beat me with her forehead, and the rukachi said: my husband, sir, Philip died in vain, his slaves killed him; and I lived with my husband for half a quarter of a year, and, sir, we had no children, and we took Timoshka as a place for a child, so that, sir, there would be a wake for the souls of my husband and mine, but there is no spiritual diploma. And I, sir, want to sit as a widow and remember the soul of my husband, and in my belly there would not be a commemoration of the soul of my husband and mine: and you, sir, how will you please, how will you indicate? And I, Metropolitan Cyprian, looked upon this in Namaconun, and found out the rule, even writing in the law like this: “even if a husband dies without a covenant, without spiritual literacy, or a wife also dies without being born from them, or like a father and grandfather, the husband inherits his wife’s acquisitions and her dowry, and the wife also inherits the acquisitions of her husband.” 1345 And in another legal chapter it is written that “the successor inherits the father and mother who adopted him; If they have natural children, he is equal with his own children, and his share is the same: if he does not have natural children, the father and mother who adopted him will inherit, even if there is a son or daughter’s successor.” 1346 For this reason, I Metropolitan Cyprian, according to those legal rules, judged and ruled that Theodosia of Filipov: she has freedom in the land and people, and in all the acquisition of her husband, sits in her home, and remembers 1347 the soul of her husband and governs, and feeds her adopted child. And whatever covenant and management he wants, a spiritual document, he can write about his husband’s acquisitions and about his own, and about his husband’s souls and about his own, freely; Otherwise, no one would have intervened through these laws and our government. For this reason, a letter of our humility was quickly given, for approval, to that Fedosia Filipov, June 14, indictment 12, in the summer of 6912. The law is given from the Prochiron (tit. XX, ch. 19) or the “Law of the City,” but not in the translation of the Helmsman’s Book (see part 2, l, 94). Compare Prochiron tit. XXV, ch. 3., or in print. The helmsman, part 2, l. 87. The following Basilic law comes closer to Cyprian’s quotation: παιδὶ θετῷ, ὀμοίως πάντες κληρονομοῦσιν. Zachariae, Jus graeco-romanum, Pars V, p. 425, § 33. You might be interested in: