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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.5.83.pr

Institution Conditioned on Legal Heir Not Claiming

Passage 4262 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Scaevola's opinion on an institution of an heir under the condition 'if the legitimate heir is unwilling to claim the inheritance,' stating that the condition fails if the legitimate heir actually claims it.

[SCAEUOLA libro quinto decimo quaestionum. ] §28.5.83.prSi quis ita heres instituatur: 'si legitimus heres uindicare nolit hereditatem meam', puto deficere condicionem testamenti illo uindicante.
[SCAEVOLA, Questions, book 15.] anyone should be appointed heir as follows: 'if the legitimate heir is unwilling to claim my inheritance,' I think that the condition of the will fails if he claims it.

Notes

  1. §28.5.83.prillo uindicante — An ablative absolute where the pronoun illo refers back to the legitimus heres in the preceding conditional clause. Together with the present participle uindicante, it functions conditionally, meaning 'if he (the legitimate heir) should claim [it]'.
  2. §28.5.83.prdeficere — The infinitive deficere (to fail) is part of the accusative-with-infinitive (A.c.I.) construction governed by the main verb puto, with condicionem serving as its subject accusative.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §28.5.83.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:28.5.83.pr

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