- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
- Translation
- AI-generated (gemini-3.5-flash) — machine translation; may contain errors
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- CTS URN
- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:2.8.12.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-28
The text explains that an heir under a pending condition who possesses the inheritance must provide security to the substitute heir, the rights of the substitute if the condition fails, and the praetor's authority to order such security beforehand.
[IDEM libro septuagensimo septimo ad edictum.]
[THE SAME, in the seventy-seventh book on the Edict.]
Inter omnes conuenit heredem sub condicione,1 pendente condicione possidentem hereditatem, substituto cauere debere de hereditate, et, si defecerit condicio, adeuntem hereditatem substitutum et petere hereditatem posse et, si optinuerit, committi stipulationem.2 et plerumque ipse praetor et ante condicionem existentem et ante diem petitionis uenientem3 ex causa iubere solet stipulationem interponi.
It is agreed among all that an heir appointed under a condition, who is in possession of the inheritance while the condition is pending, must give security regarding the inheritance to the substitute; and if the condition fails, the substitute, on entering upon the inheritance, can both claim the inheritance and, if he prevails, the stipulation is committed. And generally, the praetor himself is accustomed, on cause shown, to order the stipulation to be entered into both before the condition is fulfilled and before the day for the claim arrives.
- 2.8.12.prheredem sub condicione
heredem is the subject accusative of the infinitive debere, modified by sub condicione, meaning 'an heir appointed under a condition'.
- 2.8.12.prcommitti stipulationem
stipulationem (subject accusative) and committi (passive infinitive) form an AcI construction dependent on the main verb conuenit. The verb committi in the context of a stipulation means that the liability under the stipulation is triggered or becomes enforceable because the negative condition occurred.
- 2.8.12.pret ante condicionem existentem et ante diem petitionis uenientem
The correlative et... et... means 'both... and...'. The present participles existentem and uenientem modify condicionem and diem respectively.