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2 months ago in Constitutional Law , Private Law By Taylor

Are there scholarly arguments supporting freedom of testation as a constitutional right?

This question arises from inheritance law debates. Freedom of testation is often treated as statutory, not constitutional. I want to know whether scholars ground it in constitutional principles.

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By Farah Answered 3 weeks ago

 From my experience, freedom of testation is rarely framed as an explicit constitutional right, but I have seen strong arguments linking it to property rights and personal autonomy. Scholars often ground it in constitutional protections of ownership, dignity, or family life. Courts tend to allow legislative limits, especially for forced heirship, yet still treat testamentary freedom as normatively important. I would recommend examining German and U.S. scholarship, where constitutional property discourse is most developed.

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