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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §10.2.43.pr

Request for an Arbitrator of Partition by a Single Heir

Passage 1681 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian explains that even a single co-heir can request an arbitrator for the division of an inheritance, regardless of the presence or consent of the other heirs.

[ULPIANUS libro trigensimo ad Sabinum. ] §10.2.43.prArbitrum familiae erciscundae uel unus petere potest: nam prouocare apud iudicem uel unum heredem posse palam est: igitur et praesentibus ceteris et inuitis poterit uel unus arbitrum poscere.
[ULPIANUS, from the thirtieth book on Sabinus.] Even a single heir can request an arbitrator for the division of an inheritance; for it is clear that even a single heir can initiate proceedings before a judge. Therefore, even if the others are present and unwilling, even a single heir will be able to demand an arbitrator.

Notes

  1. 10.2.43.pruel unus — The conjunction uel is used here not in a disjunctive sense ('or'), but in an intensive adverbial sense ('even', 'at least'), emphasizing that a single heir alone, out of multiple co-heirs, has the standing to initiate the action.
  2. 10.2.43.prprouocare — Used here as a legal term meaning 'to initiate legal proceedings' or 'to summon the other party before a judge'. It functions as the infinitive in the accusative-and-infinitive (A.c.I.) construction acting as the subject of palam est, with uel unum heredem as its subject accusative.
  3. 10.2.43.prpraesentibus ceteris et inuitis — An ablative absolute construction where the participle praesentibus and the adjective inuitis both modify the substantival pronoun ceteris. It carries a concessive force: 'even though the others are present and unwilling.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §10.2.43.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:10.2.43.pr

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