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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
Discusses the conditions under which a bona fide possessor of an inheritance may bring suit against debtors and others, and the rights of the actual claimant of the inheritance.
[PAPINIANUS libro tertio quaestionum.]
[PAPINIANUS in his third book of Questions.]
Si bonae fidei possessor hereditatis uelit cum debitoribus hereditariis aut qui res hereditarias occupauerint consistere,1 audietur, utique si periculum erit, ne inter moras actiones intercidant.2 petitor autem hereditatis citra metum3 exceptionis in rem agere poterit: quid enim si possessor hereditatis neglegat? quid si nihil iuris habere se sciat?
If a bona fide possessor of an inheritance wishes to litigate with the debtors of the inheritance or with those who have occupied the things belonging to the inheritance, he shall be heard, especially if there is a danger that the rights of action may be lost during the delays. The claimant of the inheritance, however, will be able to bring an action in rem without fear of an exception: for what if the possessor of the inheritance should be negligent? What if he knows that he has no right?
- 5.3.49.prconsistere
The present active infinitive of consisto (to stand, withstand). In a legal context, it means "to stand together in court, to litigate, to carry on a lawsuit" against someone (cum + ablative).
- 5.3.49.prne inter moras actiones intercidant
A subordinate clause dependent on periculum (danger). The construction periculum ne + subjunctive (intercidant, 3rd person plural present active subjunctive of intercido) expresses "the danger that...". inter moras means "during the delays".
- 5.3.49.prcitra metum
The preposition citra (on this side of, short of) is here used in the sense of "without" (equivalent to sine), governing the accusative metum (fear). exceptionis is a genitive modifying metum ("fear of an exception").