- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
Marcellus defines the meaning of challenging a will as undutiful and explains that this typically occurs when parents are falsely instigated to disinherit or pass over their children.
[MARCELLUS libro tertio digestorum.]
[MARCELLUS in the third book of the Digests.]
Inofficiosum testamentum dicere1 hoc est allegare, quare exheredari uel praeteriri non debuerit:2 quod3 plerumque accidit, cum falso parentes instimulati liberos suos uel exheredant uel praetereunt.
To declare a will undutiful is to allege the reason why one ought not to have been disinherited or passed over; and this usually happens when parents, being falsely instigated, either disinherit or pass over their own children.
- 5.2.3.prInofficiosum testamentum dicere
dicere is an infinitive used as a noun serving as the subject, and inofficiosum testamentum is its accusative object, meaning 'to declare a will to be undutiful'.
- 5.2.3.prnon debuerit
A subjunctive perfect in the indirect question introduced by quare, representing a prior action relative to the main verb est. The subject of the passive infinitives exheredari uel praeteriri is omitted but understood from the context.
- 5.2.3.prquod
Neuter singular nominative relative pronoun referring to the entire preceding situation of challenging a will as undutiful, serving as a connecting relative to link the sentences.