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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §28.6.15.pr

Military Substitution for Sons and Its Scope by Age

Passage 4287 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text explains that if a centurion substitutes an heir for his sons on condition of their dying childless before age 25, the substitute takes the son's own property if they die before age 14 under common law, but only the father's property with its fruits after that age by military privilege.

[PAPINIANUS libro sexto responsorum. ] §28.6.15.prCenturio filiis, si intra quintum et uicesimum annum aetatis sine liberis uita decesserint, directo substituit.
[PAPINIANUS, Book 6 of Opinions.] centurion directly substituted (an heir) to his sons, if they should depart from life without children within their twenty-fifth year of age.
intra quattuordecim annos etiam propria bona filio substitutus iure communi capiet, post eam autem aetatem ex priuilegio militum patris dumtaxat cum fructibus inuentis in hereditate.
Within fourteen years, the substitute to the son will, by common law, take even the son's own property; but after that age, by virtue of the military privilege of the father, he will take only (the father's property), along with the fruits found in the inheritance.

Notes

  1. §28.6.15.prpatris dumtaxat — patris is a genitive modifying the omitted noun bona (property) implied from the context, in contrast with the preceding propria bona. It functions as the object of the omitted verb capiet.
  2. §28.6.15.printra quattuordecim annos — Refers to the age of puberty (14 years) for males in Roman law, marking the temporal limit of pupillary substitution (pupillaris substitutio) under the common law (iure communi).

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