- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.3.42.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
This section explains that a debtor of the inheritance is not subject to the petition for inheritance if they refuse to pay because they doubt the plaintiff's status as heir, rather than claiming to be the heir themselves.
[ULPIANUS libro sexagensimo septimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS in his sixty-seventh book on the Edict.]
Si debitor hereditarius non ideo nolit soluere, quod1 se dicat heredem,2 sed ideo quod neget aut dubitet, an hereditas pertineat3 ad eum qui petit hereditatem, non tenetur hereditatis petitione.
If a debtor of the inheritance refuses to pay, not because he claims that he himself is the heir, but because he denies or doubts whether the inheritance belongs to the person who is petitioning for the inheritance, he is not liable to the petition for inheritance.
- 5.3.42.prnon ideo... quod... sed ideo quod
This correlation expresses "not because... but because...". The subjunctive verbs in the quod-clauses (dicat, neget, dubitet) are used to indicate a subjective reason alleged by the subject.
- 5.3.42.prse dicat heredem
An accusative with infinitive construction (with 'esse' omitted), where the reflexive pronoun 'se' refers to the subject of 'dicat' (the debtor), meaning "claims that he himself is the heir."
- 5.3.42.pran hereditas pertineat
An indirect question clause with the present subjunctive 'pertineat', dependent on the preceding verbs 'neget' and 'dubitet'.