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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §11.7.6.pr-11.7.6.1

Entitlement to Burial Rights and the Sale of Tombs

Passage 1809 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Ulpian defines the scope of burial rights for heirs, children, disinherited persons, and freedmen in both types of tombs, and discusses the saleability of unused tombs and cenotaphs.

[ULPIANUS libro uicensimo quinto ad edictum. ] §11.7.6.pruel quod pater familias iure hereditario adquisiit.
[ULPIAN in the twenty-fifth book on the Edict.] or what a head of a household has acquired by hereditary right.
sed in utroque heredibus quidem ceterisque successoribus qualescumque fuerint licet sepeliri et mortuum inferre, etiamsi ex minima parte heredes ex testamento uel ab intestato sint, licet non consentíant alii.
But in both cases, heirs and other successors, of whatever kind they may be, are permitted to be buried and to bring in a dead person, even if they are heirs to a very small share, whether by will or on intestacy, and even if others do not consent.
liberis autem cuiuscumque sexus uel gradus etiam filiis familiae et emancipatis idem ius concessum est, siue extiterint heredes siue sese abstineant.
However, to children of whatever sex or degree, even to children in power and emancipated children, the same right is granted, whether they have become heirs or abstain from the inheritance.
exheredatis autem, nisi specialiter testator iusto odio commotus eos uetuerit, humanitatis gratia tantum sepeliri, non etiam alios praeter suam posteritatem inferre licet.
But for disinherited children, unless the testator, moved by a just hatred, has specifically forbidden them, they are permitted to be buried solely out of humanity, but not also to bring in others besides their own descendants.
liberti autem nec sepeliri nec alios inferre poterunt, nisi heredes extiterint patrono, quamuis quidam inscripserint monumentum sibi libertisque suis fecisse: et ita Papinianus respondit et saepissime idem constitutum est.
Freedmen, however, can neither be buried nor bring in others, unless they have become heirs to their patron, although some may have inscribed on the monument that they made it for themselves and their freedmen; and Papinian replied to this effect, and the same has been decided very frequently.
§11.7.6.1Si adhuc monumentum purum est, poterit quis hoc et uendere et donare.
If the monument is still pure, one can both sell and donate it.
si cenotaphium fit, posse hoc uenire dicendum est: nec enim esse hoc religiosum diui fratres rescripserunt.
If it is made a cenotaph, it must be said that this can be sold; for the deified brothers replied in a rescript that this is not religious.

Notes

  1. §11.7.6.pruel quod pater familias iure hereditario adquisiit — This relative clause lacks a main clause and syntactically continues and supplements the definition of a hereditary tomb (*hereditaria*) given in the preceding Gaius fragment (§11.7.5.pr).
  2. §11.7.6.prquamuis quidam inscripserint monumentum sibi libertisque suis fecisse — A concessive clause introduced by the conjunction `quamuis` with the perfect subjunctive `inscripserint`. The verb governs the accusative with infinitive (AcI) construction `monumentum ... fecisse` as its object.
  3. §11.7.6.1posse hoc uenire dicendum est — The infinitive `uenire` is not from *venīre* ('to come'), but is the present active infinitive of the defective verb *vēneō* (*vēnīre*, 'to be sold'), which serves as the passive of *uendō*. It acts as the predicate of the accusative with infinitive (AcI) clause governed by the gerundive of obligation `dicendum est`.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §11.7.6.pr-11.7.6.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:11.7.6.pr-11.7.6.1

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