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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.2.15.pr

Invalidity of Disinheriting a Son Mistaken for an Adulterer's

Passage 4136 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

It is shown that the disinheriting is likewise invalid if a testator disinherits his own son under the mistaken belief that the son was begotten by an adulterer.

[ULPIANUS libro primo ad Sabinum. ] §28.2.15.prIdem est et si ita dixerit: 'ille illius filius exheres esto', patrem ei adulterum per errorem adsignans.
[ULPIANUS, Book 1 On Sabinus.] It is the same also if he says as follows: "Let that person, the son of so-and-so, be disinherited," assigning to him by mistake an adulterous father.

Notes

  1. §28.2.15.prIdem est — The phrase "it is the same" refers to the legal consequence established in the preceding fragment (Africanus, D. 28.2.14.2), namely that "the disinheriting is of no effect" (nullius momenti).
  2. §28.2.15.pradsignans — A present active participle agreeing with the unexpressed subject (the testator) of the conditional clause. It governs the double accusative structure with the dative 'ei' (to him), meaning "assigning 'patrem adulterum' (an adulterous father) to him by mistake."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.2.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.2.15.pr

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