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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §1.7.22.pr-1.7.22.2

Restitution upon Minor Adrogatee's Death and Substitution Limits

Passage 124 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment discusses the obligation to restore property when an arrogator dies leaving an impuberal adopted son who subsequently dies, and the limits on the arrogator's power to substitute an heir or impose a trust on the child's share.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo sexto ad Sabinum. ] §1.7.22.prSi adrogator decesserit impubere relicto filio adoptiuo et mox impubes decedat, an heredes adrogatoris teneantur? et dicendum est heredes quoque restituturos et bona adrogati et praeterea quartam partem.
[ULPIAN, on Sabinus, book 26.] If an arrogator dies, leaving an impuberal adopted son, and soon afterwards the impuberal son dies, are the heirs of the arrogator bound? And it must be said that the heirs also must restore both the property of the arrogated person and, in addition, the fourth part.
§1.7.22.1Sed an impuberi adrogator substituere possit, quaeritur: et puto non admitti substitutionem, nisi forte ad quartam solam quam ex bonis eius consequitur, et hactenus ut ei usque ad pubertatem substituat.
But it is asked whether an arrogator can substitute an heir to an impuberal son; and I think that substitution is not admitted, unless perhaps only with respect to the fourth part which he obtains from his property, and only so far as to substitute an heir for him up to the age of puberty.
ceterum si fidei eius committat, ut quandoque restituat, non oportet admitti fideicommissum, quia hoc non iudicio eius ad eum peruenit, sed principali prouidentia.
However, if he should commit to his trust to restore it at some time, the trust (fideicommissum) ought not to be admitted, because this did not come to him by his judgment, but by imperial providence.
§1.7.22.2Haec omnia dicenda sunt, siue in locum filii siue in locum nepotis aliquis impuberem adrogauerit.
All these things must be said, whether someone has arrogated an impuberal person in the place of a son or in the place of a grandson.

Notes

  1. §1.7.22.primpubere relicto filio adoptiuo — Absolute ablative construction. 'impubere' is the ablative singular of the adjective 'impubes' (under the age of puberty).
  2. §1.7.22.prrestituturos — Future active participle agreeing with the subject accusative 'heredes' in the accusative-with-infinitive (ACI) construction governed by 'dicendum est', with 'esse' omitted.
  3. §1.7.22.1quartam solam quam ex bonis eius consequitur — Only the fourth part which he obtains from his [the arrogator's] property. 'eius' refers to the arrogator. This refers to the 'quarta Antonina' (Antonine fourth), a quarter of the arrogator's estate guaranteed to an impuberal arrogated child by a rescript of Antoninus Pius if the relationship was severed by the arrogator's death or unjust emancipation.
  4. §1.7.22.1non oportet admitti fideicommissum — The trust (fideicommissum) ought not to be admitted. Since this fourth part does not come to the arrogated child by the free judgment of the arrogator but by imperial providence, the arrogator cannot impose a trust or any burden on this portion to return it.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §1.7.22.pr-1.7.22.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:1.7.22.pr-1.7.22.2

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