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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §16.3.4.pr

Disgorgement of Profits from Apparent Heir Selling Deposit

Passage 2409 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It states that if a person who is not the heir sells a deposited object under the false belief that he is the heir, the profit will likewise be wrested from him.

[PAULUS libro quinto ad Plautium. ] §16.3.4.prSed et si non sit heres, sed putauit se heredem et uendidit, simili modo lucrum ei extorquebitur.
[PAULUS libro quinto ad Plautium.] But also, if he is not the heir, but thought he was the heir and sold [it], in like manner the profit will be wrested from him.

Notes

  1. §16.3.4.prse heredem — An accusative with infinitive construction with the copula esse omitted (se heredem esse), serving as the object of the verb putauit, meaning 'that he was the heir'.
  2. §16.3.4.prei — A dative of separation used with the verb of taking away extorquebitur, indicating that the profit will be wrested 'from him'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §16.3.4.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:16.3.4.pr

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