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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.5.24.pr

Institution of Both or the Surviving Heir

Passage 4203 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Presents Celsus' opinion on the scope of heirs when a testator designates "both or whichever of them survives as heir," covering the scenarios where both are alive and where one has died.

[CELSUS libro sexto decimo digestorum. ] §28.5.24.pr'Titius et Seius uterue eorum uiuet heres mihi esto'. existimo, si uterque uiuat, ambo heredes esse, altero mortuo eum qui supererit ex asse heredem fore,
[CELSUS libro sexto decimo digestorum.] 'Let Titius and Seius, or whichever of them shall be alive, be my heir.' I think that, if both are alive, both are heirs, and if one is dead, the one who survives will be heir to the whole estate,

Notes

  1. §28.5.24.pruterue — The pronoun `uter` (whichever of the two) combined with the enclitic conjunction `-ue` (or). Together with `eorum uiuet` (of them who shall live, in the future indicative), it represents an alternative condition: "or whichever of them shall be alive."
  2. §28.5.24.prex asse — Meaning "from the as (the whole coin/unit split into twelve parts, here representing the entire estate)." In Roman inheritance law, this is a technical expression indicating that someone is the "sole heir" or "heir to the whole estate."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.5.24.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.5.24.pr

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