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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.3.8.pr-28.3.8.1

Effects of Adoption and Emancipation on Wills

Passage 4163 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This chunk explains that a testament is revoked by the adoption or adrogation of a son or daughter, but is not revoked when a daughter or grandson is emancipated.

[IDEM libro undecimo ad Sabinum. ] §28.3.8.prUerum est adoptione uel adrogatione filii filiaeue testamentum rumpi, quoniam sui heredis adgnatione solet rumpi.
[THE SAME, in the eleventh book on Sabinus] It is true that a testament is revoked by the adoption or adrogation of a son or a daughter, since it is customary for a testament to be revoked by the agnation of a self-successor.
§28.3.8.1Filia cum emancipatur uel nepos, quia una mancipatione exeunt de potestate, testamentum non rumpunt.
When a daughter or a grandson is emancipated, since they depart from power by a single mancipation, they do not revoke a testament.

Notes

  1. §28.3.8.prfilii filiaeue — Objective genitive modifying the nouns "adoptione" and "adrogatione", meaning "the adoption or adrogation of a son or a daughter."
  2. §28.3.8.1emancipatur — Although the verb "emancipatur" with the conjunction "cum" is grammatically singular, agreeing with the feminine singular "filia" (of the subject "filia uel nepos"), the verbs "exeunt" in the causal clause and "rumpunt" in the main clause are plural, showing that both the daughter and the grandson are semantically the subjects.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.3.8.pr-28.3.8.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.3.8.pr-28.3.8.1

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