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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §12.6.34.pr

Recovery of Condition Payment upon Trebellian Restoration

Passage 2010 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that if a fideicommissary pays money to the heir to fulfill a condition, but the heir subsequently restores the inheritance under the Senatusconsultum Trebellianum, the fideicommissary has no cause for payment and can recover the money via condictio.

[IDEM libro quadragensimo digestorum. ] §12.6.34.prIs cui hereditas tota per fideicommissum relicta est et praeterea fundus, si decem dedisset heredi, et heres suspectam hereditatem dixerit et eam ex Trebelliano restituerit, causam dandae pecuniae non habet, e ideo quod eo nomine quasi implendae condicionis gratia dederit, condictione repetet.
[THE SAME, Book 40.] A person to whom the entire inheritance, and besides this a tract of land, has been left by way of fideicommissum, if he has given ten to the heir, and the heir has declared the inheritance to be suspect and has restored it in accordance with the Senatusconsultum Trebellianum, has no cause for giving the money; and therefore, because he gave it on that account, as if for the sake of fulfilling a condition, he shall recover it by an action for recovery (condictio).

Notes

  1. 12.6.34.prsuspectam hereditatem dixerit — Lit. "declared the inheritance suspect". This refers to the legal situation where an heir hesitates to accept an inheritance due to suspected insolvency (debt exceeding assets) and raises this formal defense.
  2. 12.6.34.prex Trebelliano — Refers to the Senatusconsultum Trebellianum. Under this decree, the heir could restore the entire inheritance to the fideicommissary, and all actions (rights and liabilities) would transfer to the latter.
  3. 12.6.34.pre ideo — The manuscript reading "e ideo" is commonly emended to or understood as "et ideo" (and therefore).
  4. 12.6.34.prquasi implendae condicionis gratia — "implendae" is a gerundive in the genitive feminine singular agreeing with "condicionis" (genitive feminine singular), both depending on the postposition "gratia" ("for the sake of"). "As if for the sake of fulfilling the condition".

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §12.6.34.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:12.6.34.pr

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