- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:5.3.52.pr
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
This section rules that if a possessor has acquired dishonest gains from an inheritance, they must be restored, preventing a fair interpretation of the law from yielding a profit to the possessor from improper means.
[HERMOGENIANUS libro secundo iuris epitomarum.]
[HERMOGENIANUS in his second book of Epitomes of Law.]
Si possessor ex hereditate inhonestos habuerit quaestus, hos etiam restituere cogetur, ne honesta interpretatio non honesto quaestui lucrum possessori faciat.1
If the possessor has made dishonest gains from the inheritance, he shall also be compelled to restore these, lest a proper interpretation should produce a profit for the possessor from an improper gain.
- 5.3.52.prne honesta interpretatio non honesto quaestui lucrum possessori faciat
Features a rhetorical contrast between honestus and non honestus. The verb faciat governs two datives: possessori (to/for the possessor, as the beneficiary) and non honesto quaestui (for the dishonest gain, as the object or source of profit). The clause means that a proper legal interpretation must not lead to a result where a dishonest gain remains as a profit in the hands of the possessor.