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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.2.40.pr

Useful Action for Division by Trust Beneficiary

Passage 1678 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if a sole heir is requested by a trust to restore a share of the inheritance to someone, a useful action for the partition of an inheritance (utile familiae erciscundae iudicium) can be brought between them.

[GAIUS libro secundo fideicommissorum. ] §10.2.40.prSi ex asse heres institutus rogatus sit mihi partem aliquam restituere, ueluti dimidiam, utile familiae erciscundae iudicium recte inter nos agetur.
[GAIUS, from the second book on Trust Bequests.] If a person appointed heir to the whole estate is requested to restore some share, for example a half, to me, a useful action for the partition of an inheritance will be rightly brought between us.

Notes

  1. §10.2.40.prex asse — Literally "from the as" (the Roman unit of copper or weight divided into twelve parts), a legal idiom denoting a sole heir appointed to the entirety of the estate.
  2. §10.2.40.prutile familiae erciscundae iudicium — Since the ordinary action for the partition of an inheritance (familiae erciscundae iudicium) lies only between co-heirs, in the absence of a co-heirship between a sole heir and a trust beneficiary, a "useful" or analogous action (utile iudicium) is granted by the praetor.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.2.40.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.2.40.pr

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