But I have to give you a piece of advice, Your Majesty, letting Mr. Wilde stay with you will only bring greater tragedy."

"Mr. Holmes, I also understand. We have agreed that he will stay away from me forever and go to Australia to live on his own."

"In that case, Lord Duke, may I suggest that you and the Duchess try your best to reconcile? You yourself once said that the interruption of your relationship was due to the existence of this extramarital child."

"Yes, Mr. Holmes, I wrote her a letter this morning."

Holmes stood up and said: "In this way, my friends and I can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Although we did not stay here for long, the results are still good. However, there is a small problem that I still hope to find out. Rubin

This scoundrel nailed a horse with iron hooves, a trick he probably learned from Oscar Wilde, right?"

The Duke stood up and thought for a moment, then opened a door with surprise on his face. We saw a very luxurious room that could almost be compared to a museum. He led us to a glass cabinet in a corner and pointed to the items inside.

Talk about the inscription on the cabinet: "The iron palm was dug from the defensive trench of Holdreth's mansion. It was nailed to the horse shoe and the bottom was in the shape of a toe to confuse the pursuers. It probably belonged to the baron Holdreth who fought all year round in the Middle Ages.

We use.”

Holmes opened the cabinet door and wiped the iron palm. His fingers were immediately stained with damp soil. The thin soil was obviously very new.

Then he closed the glass cabinet again and said: "Thank you very much, Duke, this is the second very valuable thing I have seen here."

"Oh, so what about the first one?"

Holmes folded his check, carefully put it into his notebook, patted it cherishingly and said, "You know, I am very poor." Then he hid the notebook deeply in his underwear pocket.

【Legal Commentary】

In the story, the Duke's youngest son was kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped him was actually the Duke's eldest son. The cause of this case was the inheritance rights of the Duke's property. The novel describes that the eldest son is the Duke's illegitimate son, and the younger son is the Duke's.

A legitimate son. The eldest son always thought that all the Duke's property should belong to him alone.

, he felt in his heart that his youngest son was a huge obstacle to him inheriting the duke's property, which led to a series of subsequent cases. So how does Chinese law stipulate the ownership of inheritance rights? To answer this question, according to our country's "Succession Law"

According to the relevant provisions of ", if an heir commits any of the following acts, he will lose the right to inherit:

(1) Intentionally killing the deceased.

(2) Killing other heirs to compete for inheritance.

(3) The decedent is abandoned or the decedent is seriously abused.

(4) If the will is forged, tampered with or destroyed, and the circumstances are serious, the estate will be inherited in the following order:

First order: spouse, children, parents.

Second order: brothers and sisters, grandparents, maternal grandparents.

After the inheritance begins, the first-order heir will inherit, and the second-order heir will not inherit. If there is no first-order heir, the second-order heir will inherit.

The children mentioned in this law include legitimate children, illegitimate children, adopted children and dependent stepchildren. The parents mentioned in this law include biological parents, adoptive parents and dependent step-parents. This law

The so-called brothers and sisters include brothers and sisters of the same parents, brothers and sisters of the same father or half-mother, adopted brothers and sisters, and step-brothers and sisters with a supporting relationship.

The shares of the inheritance inherited by heirs in the same order shall generally be equal. Heirs who have special difficulties in life and lack the ability to work shall be taken into account when distributing the inheritance. Heirs who have performed the main support obligations for the decedent or who live with the decedent shall be allocated
Chapter completed!