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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.6.2.pr-12.6.2.1

Recovery of Conditional Payments and Undue Legacies

Passage 1977 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text discusses the admissibility of a claim for recovery in payments made conditional on subsequent events (such as the absence of debt or the application of the Falcidian law), and the recovery of legacies paid under a will that is later found to be invalid, forged, or modified by subsequent debts or concealed codicils.

[IDEM libro sexto decimo ad Sabinum. ] §12.6.2.prSi quis sic soluerit, ut, si apparuisset esse indebitum uel Falcidia emerserit, reddatur, repetitio locum habebit: negotium enim contractum est inter eos.
[THE SAME, on Sabinus, book 16.] If anyone has paid on the terms that, if it should appear that there was no debt, or if the Falcidian law should come into play, it should be returned, a claim for recovery will lie; for a transaction was contracted between them.
§12.6.2.1Si quid ex testamento solutum sit, quod postea falsum uel inofficiosum uel irritum uel ruptum apparuerit, repetetur, uel si post multum temporis emerserit aes alienum, uel codicilli diu celati prolati, qui ademptionem continent legatorum solutorum uel deminutionem per hoc, quia aliis quoque legata relicta sunt.
If anything has been paid under a will, which is afterwards shown to be forged, or inofficious, or invalid, or revoked, it shall be recovered; or if after a long time a debt emerges, or codicils long concealed are produced which contain a revocation of the legacies paid, or a reduction thereof on the ground that legacies have been left to others also.
nam diuus Hadrianus circa inofficiosum et falsum testamentum rescripsit actionem dandam ei, secundum quem de hereditate iudicatum est.
For the deified Hadrian wrote in a rescript, concerning an inofficious and forged will, that an action should be given to him in whose favor judgment was rendered regarding the inheritance.

Notes

  1. §12.6.2.prFalcidia — This refers to the Lex Falcidia (40 BC), which secured at least one-quarter of the inheritance (the 'Falcidian portion') to the heir, meaning here that the limitation imposed by this law arose subsequently.
  2. §12.6.2.1quod — The relative pronoun 'quod' refers back to the neuter singular antecedent 'testamentum' and serves as the subject of its clause. The verb in this clause is the subsequent 'apparuerit' (perfect subjunctive or future perfect).
  3. §12.6.2.1secundum quem — The preposition 'secundum' governs the accusative case and means, in a judicial context, 'in favor of.' Here it means 'in whose favor judgment regarding the inheritance was rendered.'

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.6.2.pr-12.6.2.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.6.2.pr-12.6.2.1

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