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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §13.5.22.pr

Transfer of Action on a Promise upon Inheritance Delivery

Passage 2105 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is argued that if an inheritance is restored or evicted, the action on the promised money is denied to the original promisee and should instead be granted to the fideicommissary or the successful litigant.

[IDEM libro sexto breuium. ] §13.5.22.prSi post constitutam tibi pecuniam hereditatem ex senatus consulto Trebelliano restitueris, quoniam sortis petitionem transtulisti ad alium, deneganda est tibi pecuniae constitutae actio.
[THE SAME, from the sixth book of Epitomes.] If, after money has been promised to you, you have restored the inheritance in accordance with the Trebellian senatusconsultum, since you have transferred the claim for the principal to another, the action on the promised money must be denied to you.
idem est in hereditatis possessore post euictam hereditatem.
The same holds true in the case of a possessor of an inheritance after the inheritance has been evicted.
sed magis est, ut fideicommissario uel ei qui uicit decernenda esset actio.
But it is more correct that the action should be granted to the fideicommissary or to the one who has prevailed.

Notes

  1. §13.5.22.prpost constitutam tibi pecuniam — The preposition post governs the noun pecuniam combined with the perfect passive participle constitutam (the so-called ab urbe condita construction), meaning "after money has been promised." tibi is a dative depending on the participle constitutam.
  2. §13.5.22.prsed magis est, ut ... decernenda esset actio — The impersonal expression magis est ("it is more correct/preferable") introduces a noun clause with the conjunction ut and the imperfect subjunctive esset. The imperfect subjunctive is used to express a potential or mild judgment about what "should be" granted.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §13.5.22.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:13.5.22.pr

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