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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.3.10.pr

Return of a Son from Captivity and Father's Will

Passage 4165 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This section presents a decision based on the opinion of Sabinus that a son returning from captivity by postliminium does not invalidate his father's testament.

[IDEM libro primo ad Uitellium. ] §28.3.10.prsed nec filius postliminio rediens rumpit patris testamentum, ut Sabinus existimauit.
[THE SAME, in the first book on Vitellius] But neither does a son returning by postliminium revoke his father's testament, as Sabinus thought.

Notes

  1. §28.3.10.prpostliminio — Ablative of means/manner. It refers to the legal doctrine of *postliminium*, under which a Roman citizen captured by enemies, upon returning to Roman territory, recovered all their former status and rights as if they had never been captured.
  2. §28.3.10.prut Sabinus existimauit — The clause 'as Sabinus thought' modifies the entire negative assertion of the main clause ('neither does a son... revoke'). Thus, it indicates that Sabinus himself held the view that the returning son does not invalidate the father's testament.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.3.10.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.3.10.pr

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