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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.19.2.pr

Insolvent Estates and the Emperor's Acceptance or Repudiation

Passage 225 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus states that if the estate to which the emperor is instituted as heir is insolvent, the emperor must be consulted and his will ascertained regarding the acceptance or repudiation of the inheritance after examining the situation.

[PAULUS libro quinto sententiarum. ] §1.19.2.prQuod si ea bona, ex quibus imperator heres institutus est, soluendo non sint, re perspecta consulitur imperator: heredis enim instituti in adeundis uel repudiandis huiusmodi hereditatibus uoluntas exploranda est.
[PAULUS, Sentences, book 5.] But if those goods, in respect of which the emperor has been instituted as heir, are insolvent, the emperor is consulted after the circumstances have been examined; for the will of the instituted heir must be ascertained in accepting or repudiating inheritances of this kind.

Notes

  1. §1.19.2.prsoluendo non sint — An idiomatic expression using the dative of the gerund soluendo (literally, 'are not for paying'), which in legal Latin means that the estate is 'insolvent' or 'unable to meet its liabilities.'
  2. §1.19.2.prconsulitur — The third-person singular present passive of consulere, which takes an accusative meaning 'to consult someone' or 'to ask someone's advice.' Here it indicates that the emperor is the one to be consulted.
  3. §1.19.2.prin adeundis uel repudiandis huiusmodi hereditatibus — A gerundive construction where the gerundives adeundis and repudiandis agree in gender, number, and case with the noun hereditatibus, governed by the preposition in, expressing the circumstance or area of action: 'in accepting or repudiating inheritances of this kind.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.19.2.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.19.2.pr

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