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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.6.5.pr

Devolution of Paternal Power over Descendants upon Grandfather's Death

Passage 96 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It explains whose paternal power grandsons and further descendants fall under upon the death of their grandfather, and states that this rule applies to both natural and adoptive descendants.

[IDEM libro trigensimo sexto ad Sabinum. ] §1.6.5.prNepotes ex filio mortuo auo reccidere solent in filii potestatem, hoc est patris sui: simili modo et pronepotes et deinceps uel in filii potestate, si uiuit et in familia mansit, uel in eius parentis, qui ante eos in potestate est.
[THE SAME in the thirty-sixth book on Sabinus.] Grandsons by a son, upon the death of their grandfather, are accustomed to fall back under the power of the son, that is, of their own father; in like manner, great-grandsons and so on in succession fall either under the power of the son, if he is alive and has remained in the family, or under the power of that parent who is in power next above them.
et hoc non tantum in naturalibus, uerum in adoptiuis quoque iuris est.
And this is a rule of law not only in the case of natural descendants, but also in that of adoptive ones.

Notes

  1. §1.6.5.prmortuo auo — An ablative absolute with the perfect participle mortuus, expressing time or condition ("upon the death of the grandfather").
  2. §1.6.5.pruel in eius parentis — The noun potestate (or potestatem) is understood from the preceding phrase in filii potestate. eius modifies parentis, which is the antecedent of the relative pronoun qui.
  3. §1.6.5.priuris est — The genitive iuris (genitive singular of ius) is a genitive of quality or characteristic, meaning "is a matter of law" or "is a rule of law."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.6.5.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.6.5.pr

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