Introduction -- Intestate succession -- Testate succession : general rules -- Testamentary capacity -- Formalities for a will -- Revocation and revival of wills -- Capacity to inherit -- Freedom of testation -- Content of wills : absolute bequests, conditions, the modus and estate massing -- Content of wills : substitution, usufruct and accrual -- Content of wills : trusts -- Collation -- Interpretation of wills -- Succession by contract (pactum successorium) -- Customary law and the reform of customary law of Succession Act -- Administration of estates.