- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
On the principle that when judges disagree, the opinion upholding the testament should be followed, and on the condition under which a legatee may challenge an inofficious testament.
[MARCELLUS libro tertio digestorum.]
[MARCELLUS in the third book of the Digests.]
Si pars iudicantium de inofficioso testamento contra testamentum, pars secundum id sententiam dederit,1 quod interdum fieri solet, humanius erit sequi eius partis sententiam quae secundum testamentum spectauit: nisi si aperte iudices inique secundum scriptum heredem pronuntiasse apparebit.
If, in a case concerning an inofficious testament, some of the judges render a decision against the testament and others in favor of it, which sometimes happens to be the case, it will be more humane to follow the opinion of that part which favored the testament; unless it shall clearly appear that the judges have unjustly decided in favor of the written heir.
Illud notissimum est eum qui legatum perceperit non recte de inofficioso testamento dicturum,2 nisi id totum alii administrauit.
It is very well known that a person who has accepted a legacy cannot rightly bring an action regarding an inofficious testament, unless he has administered the whole of it to someone else.
- 5.2.10.prpars... pars... dederit
The verb dederit (and its object sententiam) is expressed only in the second clause pars... dederit and must be supplied in the first clause pars... contra testamentum. The pronoun id in secundum id is a neuter accusative referring back to testamentum.
- 5.2.10.1non recte de inofficioso testamento dicturum
This is an accusative with infinitive (A.C.I.) construction using the future active participle dicturum with esse omitted, depending on the main clause Illud notissimum est. Its logical subject is eum. The phrase de inofficioso testamento dicere is a legal idiom meaning "to plead or bring an action regarding an inofficious testament."