- Source
- Digesta Iustiniani Augusti. Mommsen, Theodor & Krueger, Paul, editors. Berlin: Weidmann, 1870.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-11-11
Ulpianus explains the rules for the increase or decrease of the existing heir's share depending on whether the number of children actually born is fewer or more than the assumed three.
[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum.]
[ULPIANUS libro quinto decimo ad edictum.]
et si pauciores1 fuerint nati, residuum ei pro rata adcrescere,2 si plures quam tres, decrescere de ea parte ex qua heres factus est.
and that if fewer should be born, the residue accrues to him proportionally; if more than three, [his share] decreases from that part out of which he was made heir.
- 5.4.4.prpauciores
The comparative pauciores ("fewer") refers to a number fewer than the three children (triplets) assumed in the preceding text (i.e., one or two children).
- 5.4.4.pradcrescere
The infinitives adcrescere and decrescere are used in an accusative and infinitive (AcI) construction where the main governing verb (such as placuit or existimatur) is omitted, continuing the statement of the legal rule from the preceding context.