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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.2.20.pr

Adrogation Pending a Condition and Necessary Heirship

Passage 4141 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This fragment explains that if a son instituted as heir under a condition gives himself up for adrogation while the condition is pending, he will not become a necessary heir.

[MODESTINUS libro secundo pandectarum. ] §28.2.20.prSub condicione filius heres institutus si pendente condicione adrogandum se dedit, necessarius heres non erit.
[MODESTINUS, Book 2 of the Pandects.] If a son instituted as heir under a condition has, while the condition is pending, given himself up for adrogation, he will not be a necessary heir.

Notes

  1. §28.2.20.prpendente condicione — An ablative absolute construction consisting of the present participle pendens (from pendeo, 'to hang' or 'be pending') and the noun condicio, meaning 'while the condition is pending'.
  2. §28.2.20.pradrogandum se dedit — A construction consisting of the gerundive adrogandus, the reflexive pronoun se, and the perfect tense of the verb do (dedit). It conveys the meaning of giving oneself up to be acted upon, here meaning 'gave himself up for adrogation (adrogatio)'.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.2.20.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.2.20.pr

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