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Title: Dissertatio Politico-Juridica De Judaeo fratri suo vel consanguineo ad fidem Christianam converso ab intestato haud succedente.
In Latin, with extensive notes in German. This legal work concerns the case of a 20-year-old Jewish man who converted to Christianity and died shortly thereafter. He had previously inherited a large fortune from his father. This resulted in a legal "ambiguity" as to whether his blood relatives inherit his money or his Christian Brothers. 'We put forward here the case upon which we apply the Law. Theophilus, a youth of around 20 years old, having sworn off the Jewish superstition, and having recently been baptized in the saving waters, scarcely seven days after this Baptism, having the greatest hope concerning the holy day in regard to his own conversion, had thus lived among the Christians when of a sudden he parted from the eyes of these men.'" (There follows then an intriguing list of the possible causes of his death as speculated on by those who were around him). The case is made for the money going to his Christian Brothers through deposit in the state treasury and not his Jewish blood relatives.
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