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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.2.21.pr

Validity of Instituting a Son as Heir after Disinherison

Passage 4142 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains the legal validity of instituting a son as heir after having disinherited him by name.

[POMPONIUS libro secundo ad Quintum Mucium. ] §28.2.21.prSi filium nominatim exheredauero et eum postea heredem instituero, heres erit.
[POMPONIUS, Book 2 on Quintus Mucius.] If I have disinherited my son by name and afterwards institute him as heir, he will be heir.

Notes

  1. §28.2.21.prexheredauero... instituero — Both are first-person singular future perfect indicative. In the conditional clause (si-clause), they express actions that will have been completed prior to the future state expressed in the main clause (heres erit).

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.2.21.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.2.21.pr

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