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- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
This section explains that things whose risk falls on the heir (such as pledges, loans, or deposits to the deceased) are included in the petition for inheritance, and discusses the handling of usucapion, retention, and servitudes.
[PAULUS libro uicensimo ad edictum.]
[PAULUS in the twentieth book on the Edict]
et non tantum1 hereditaria corpora, sed et quae non sunt hereditaria, quorum tamen periculum ad heredem pertinet: ut res pignori datae defuncto uel commodatae depositaeue. et quidem rei pignori datae etiam specialis petitio est, ut et hereditatis petitione contineatur, sicut illae quarum nomine Publiciana competit. sed licet earum nomine, quae commodatae uel depositae sunt, nulla sit facile actio, quia tamen periculum earum ad nos pertinet, aequum est eas restitui.
and not only hereditary physical bodies, but also those which are not hereditary, the risk of which nevertheless belongs to the heir: such as things given in pledge to the deceased, or lent on loan or deposited. And indeed, for a thing given in pledge there is also a special petition, so that it is also contained in the petition for inheritance, just like those on whose account the Publician action is available. But although on account of those things which are lent on loan or deposited, no action is easily available, yet because their risk belongs to us, it is equitable that they be restored.
Quod si pro emptore usucapio ab herede impleta sit, non ueniet in hereditatis petitione: quia heres, id est petitor, eam uindicare potest nec ulla exceptio datur possessori.
But if usucapion as a purchaser has been completed by the heir, it will not come into the petition for inheritance: because the heir, that is, the petitioner, can claim it, and no exception is given to the possessor.
Ueniunt et hae res in hereditatis petitionem, in quibus possessor retentionem habuit, non etiam petitionem: ueluti si iurauerat defunctus petitoris rem non esse et decesserit, debent hae quoque restitui. immo et si possessor sua culpa eas amiserit, tenebitur hoc nomine. idemque erit et in praedone, licet hic propter culpam non teneatur:2 quia nec hic debet has res retinere.
These things also come into the petition for inheritance, in which the possessor had retention, but not also petition: as for example if the deceased had sworn that the thing did not belong to the petitioner and died, these also ought to be restored. Nay, even if the possessor has lost them through his own fault, he will be liable on this account. And the same will be true of a plunderer, although he may not be liable on account of fault: because he too ought not to retain these things.
Seruitutes in restitutionem hereditatis non uenire ego didici, cum nihil eo nomine possit restitui, sicut est in corporibus et fructibus, sed si non patiatur ire et agere,3 propria actione conuenietur.
I have learned that servitudes do not come into the restoration of an inheritance, since nothing can be restored under that name, as is the case in physical bodies and fruits, but if he does not allow going and driving, he will be sued by the proper action.
- 5.3.19.pret non tantum
This phrase directly continues from the end of Ulpian's §5.3.18.2 ("siue iura siue corpora sint"), omitting the main verb like "ueniunt in hoc iudicium".
- 5.3.19.2licet hic propter culpam non teneatur
A plunderer (praedo), as an unlawful possessor, bears a stricter liability for the loss of things regardless of mere fault (culpa), meaning he is not held liable merely on account of fault as he already bears full responsibility.
- 5.3.19.3ire et agere
A legal formulaic expression referring to the exercise of servitudes of way, specifically the right of passage (iter) and the right of driving beasts or vehicles (actus) in Roman law.