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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §11.1.3.pr

Difficulty of Proving Acceptance and the Edict

Passage 1749 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Paulus explains a further reason for the praetor's edict on interrogations, noting that proving the acceptance of an inheritance is usually difficult.

[PAULUS libro septimo decimo ad edictum. ] §11.1.3.prquia plerumque difficilis probatio aditae hereditatis est.
[PAULUS, from the seventeenth book on the Edict.] because the proof that an inheritance has been accepted is usually difficult.

Notes

  1. §11.1.3.praditae hereditatis — The perfect passive participle aditae (from adire, 'to accept') modifies the noun hereditatis, functioning in a dominant participle construction (similar to the 'ab urbe condita' construction) to mean 'the acceptance of an inheritance' or 'that an inheritance has been accepted' rather than 'of an accepted inheritance'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §11.1.3.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:11.1.3.pr

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