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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §20.1.28.pr

Extinction of Pledge for Conditional Legacy to a Son

Passage 2941 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Discusses that when a father accepts a pledge for a conditional legacy left to his son-in-power, and the condition is fulfilled after the father's death or the son's emancipation, the legacy becomes due to the son, but neither the father nor the son can claim the pledge.

[PAULUS libro tertio quaestionum. ] §20.1.28.prSi legati condicionalis relicti filio familias pater ab herede rem propriam eius pignori accepit et mortuo patre uel emancipato filio condicio legati exstiterit, incipit filio legatum deberi et neque pater potest pignus uindicare neque filius, qui nunc habere coepisset actionem nec ex praecedente tempore potest quicquam iuris habere in pignore, sicut in fideiussore dicitur.
[PAULUS, in his third book of Questions.] If a father accepted from an heir the heir's own property in pledge for a conditional legacy left to his son-in-power, and, upon the death of the father or the emancipation of the son, the condition of the legacy is fulfilled, the legacy begins to be owed to the son, and neither can the father claim the pledge, nor can the son; for although the son has now begun to have an action, he cannot have any right in the pledge from the preceding time, just as is said in the case of a guarantor.

Notes

  1. 20.1.28.prlegati condicionalis — Genitive of the secured debt (objective genitive) modifying pignori accepit ("accepted in pledge"), meaning "for [the security of] the conditional legacy."
  2. 20.1.28.prrem propriam eius — The pronoun eius refers to the preceding herede ("heir"), meaning "the heir's own property."
  3. 20.1.28.prqui nunc habere coepisset actionem — In the relative clause introduced by qui, the verb coepisset is in the pluperfect subjunctive, indicating a concessive force ("although he has now begun to have an action").

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §20.1.28.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:20.1.28.pr

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